“In quiet despair, I asked for help; I didn’t know Who I was asking, but I walked in.”

”Scripture calls us to goodness, to repentance, to grace, it’s not like telling a fish to ride a bicycle. God has offered these gifts to us because God chose to make us that way. Deep down inside we have a Spirit, a true Spark of His essence. We don’t have to be tossed around on the waves of our own competence. We reside in the boat of His blessed grace, which holds us steady even as we falter and sway from day to day. We often fall short, but we are called to move forward in progress with Faith and Love.”

“He is the Father, and we are His children. Most good ideas are simple, and this concept was the keystone of the new and triumphant arch through which we passed to freedom.” “A keystone is the wedge-shaped piece at the highest part of an arch that locks the other pieces in place. The “other pieces” are Steps One, Two, and Four through Twelve. In one sense this sounds like Step Three is the most important Step, that the other eleven depend on the third for support. However, Step Three is just one of twelve. It is the keystone, but without eleven other stones to build the base and the arms, keystone or not, there will be no arch. Through working of all Twelve Steps, I find that triumphant arch waiting for me to pass through to another day of freedom.”

“Persevere in all that God's guidance moves you to do. The persistent carrying out of what seems right and good will bring you to that place where you would be. If you look back over God's guidance, you will see that His leading has been very gradual; that only as you have carried out His wishes, as far as you can understand them, has God been able to give you more clear and definite leading. You are led by God's touch on a quickened, responsive mind. I pray that I may persevere in doing what seems right. I pray that I may carry out all of God's leading, as far as I can understand it.”