http://goddependancy.com A Course In Miracles and the 12 Steps Sat, 20 Dec 2008 18:03:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Two inmates broke out of the prison and when they were running away they come across a monastery. They wanted to hide in there and found two nuns working in the garden. They could not resist and started to rape the nuns. The one nun screamed out to God: "Father ... http://goddependancy.com/exit-laughing/prisoners.html Whenever I think of writing a blogpost I have incredible ideas, and by the time I get to the computer and sit in front of the screen all the ideas are gone. I don't like that fact, because I end up not writing blogpost for a long time, although I ... http://goddependancy.com/a-course-in-miracles/activation-mind.html Guilt starts and ends with me. Lately I have discovered so much hidden guilt in me, that I think I have never allowed to surface. So I have read the most dominant parts in the Course that talk about guilt. Guilt is always the idea of separation and special relationships. ... http://goddependancy.com/a-course-in-miracles/guilt.html What I am always reminded of in this process of recovery is that it is never about the substance that I seem to be addicted to. It's about fear or avoidance of a situations that I face in my life. The funny thing is that I have this realization about every ... http://goddependancy.com/12-step/itsnotthesubstance.html A Course in Miracles is truly a master piece that goes way beyond anything that I can change with my human understanding. That's why it doesn't tell me to drink 8 cups of water a day. Or what the best sleeping cycle is, or what to do, or to only ... http://goddependancy.com/a-course-in-miracles/lovecourseinmiracles.html The children were lined up in the cafeteria of a Catholic elementary school for lunch. At the head of the table was a large pile of apples. The nun made a note, and posted on the apple tray, "Take only one. God is watching." Moving further along the lunch line, at ... http://goddependancy.com/exit-laughing/god-is-watching.html It starts with me. It's all about being in peace with myself again. It is a revolution to do what we have sworn never to do - to forgive ourselves. That's why it seems so hard. But in the moment where it happens it is the most natural thing. It ... http://goddependancy.com/forgiveness/revolutionofforgiveness.html Wow, what a day, when I take responsibility for my life instead of waiting for God to fulfill me everything is happening. I have the tendency to blame everything on God and hope that he will take care of decisions I have to make or uncomfortable situations that I want ... http://goddependancy.com/forgiveness/forgiveness-and-giving-up-poverty.html It’s impossible to keep up a blog for a whole mind, because what I wrote yesterday is already so obsolete, it’s gone and over and my new mind does not have a link of memory to the past. Did that really happen to me? It doesn’t sound right anymore today. ... http://goddependancy.com/a-course-in-miracles/impossibility-of-blogging.html and into the dependency in God… I want to thank you for being beside me today.  Just your presence made me feel save, made me extend myself and not stay closed within myself. I was called upon to stand in my certainty in that moment, and give although I just wanted to ... http://goddependancy.com/a-course-in-miracles/beyond-codependency.html