by Chris | Feb 21, 2024 | General
My spouse’s alcoholism was crushing me both emotionally and physically. Our relationship was no longer a real marriage even though we were living together in the same house. My two children were gone and leading full lives far away from our home. For forty years, my...
by Chris | Jan 31, 2024 | Addiction, Getting Sober, God
In part one of this series, Mark L. writes about how the surrender he thought he needed to embrace to rejoin the Father might be more aptly described as yielding to the wooing of a lover who is always quietly beckoning him. Yielding to God’s will to move from...
by Chris | Jan 24, 2024 | Abortion Healing, God, Grief & Loss, Spiritual Tools
For quite some time now, the Holy Spirit has been nudging me to write about a very sensitive and difficult subject—the pain and trauma caused by abortion. With God’s strength and courage, I pray that we as members of the CIR fellowship will join in deep prayer and...
by Chris | Jan 4, 2024 | Adult Children of an Alcoholic, First Step, Help from the Saints, Saints—On Earth & in Heaven
In our journey of recovery, Step 1—“We admitted we were powerless over the effects of living with alcoholism and that our lives had become unmanageable”—stands as a beacon of self-awareness and courage for adult children of dysfunctional homes. Drawing wisdom from the...
by Chris | Dec 18, 2023 | General, Prayer, Prayer & Scripture Reflections, Spiritual Tools
I live in rural Pennsylvania, where most of my neighbors are farmers, and many of them are Amish. For those who don’t know, the Amish are Christians whose faith practices include eschewing modern transportation in favor of horse-drawn buggies. All of this means that...
