In an earlier post, I shared about the 2025 Pennsylvania Catholic in Recovery Women’s Retreat. I returned home carrying a deep sense of grace, yet also stepped into a quiet that felt almost unfamiliar. The retreat had been filled with sacraments and prayer, honest...
Step 11 states, “Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understood Him, praying only for the knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.” (Alcoholics Anonymous). What immediately strikes me about the...
Step 11 - “Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God.” Coming from a background in Evangelical Christianity, I was always cautious when hearing someone talk about meditation because I had learned to equate the word with New Age...