I did some review of emails I’ve sent to sponsees this morning and scheduled them as questions to go over with the group. I’m a bit anxious about that process of emailing to the group and will see how it goes. I don’t want to take on the roll of someone that thinks I “have […]

Based on the definition I found yesterday for humility in the dictionary, humility and empowerment seem to be contradictory. But I found an article today called “The Empowerment of Humility” by Richard Edgley that I want to study today. Becky and I had a good talk last night about how things are going: she had […]

Since I’m kind of pending on the step work with my sponsor after completely spacing it for the call last night, I’m going to study today about Humility: how it relates to my recovery, what I can do to have more humility, and examples of humble people in the scriptures. What is Humility? According to […]

14 But every man is atempted, when he is drawn away of his own blust, and enticed. 15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth asin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. (James 1:14-15) It was the look in his son’s eyes that brought Blaine* back to the truth. Suddenly he […]

“Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of hosts? “And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered. “Then […]

The Lord states that we should “cease to sleep longer than is needful; retire to thy bed early, that ye may not be weary; arise early, that your bodies and your minds may be invigorated.” (D&C 88:124.) This is from a talk by President Benson titled “In His Steps“. Unfortunately, I wish I would have […]

“For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and becometh as a child, […]

23 Do ye suppose that God will look upon you as guiltless while ye sit still and behold these things? Behold I say unto you, Nay. Now I would that ye should remember that God has said that the ainward vessel shall be bcleansed first, and then shall the outer vessel be cleansed also. (Alma […]

Today was a good day overall. I’m just not completely understanding my attitudes and lack of patience with the kids and Becky from time to time. I think it’s all about inner selfishness. On LDS.org, I searched for “selfishness” and found a talk by Elder James E. Faust titled, “What’s In It For Me?” What […]