RECOVERY-LIGHT-LIFE

                                                                                     "ADDICTION IS ESCAPING REALITY AT ALL COSTS"                                             SHANE SCOTT "ACCOMPLISHMENT DOES NOT CHANGE SELF-BELIEF"                                             LYNNE CLARK BRUNSON "WE ARE ALL ADDICTS IN EVERY SENSE OF THE WORD.  MOREOVER, OUR ADDICTIONS ARE OUR OWN WORST ENEMIES.  THEY ENSLAVE US WITH CHAINS THAT ARE OF OUR OWN MAKING, AND YET ARE VIRTUALLY BEYOND OUR CONTROL"                                            GERALD G. MAY In my notes from my time at Desert Solace, I have a picture of a tree, much like the one in the picture above, drawn four or five different times.  This "tree of addiction" is something Lynne talked about many times, with the intention of allowing us to understand that we are not what we do...that my addiction had roots I wasn't even aware of.  So in this tree there are leaves, branches, a trunk, and

"Nothing just goes away in the spiritual world; all must be reconciled and accounted for."                     Richard Rohr "The atonement can wash clean every stain no matter how difficult or how long or how many times repeated... The atonement leaves no tracks, no traces.  What it fixes is fixed...it just heals, and what it heals stays healed."                     Boyd K. Packer "Let us put no limitations on the premortal promises of Grace carrying us through our transformations.  More goes forward in our behalf than we can know, but what we can know is that as we yield to spiritual things, our relationship with Divinity shifts and more transforming processes become available."                     F. Enzio Busche There are a couple of scriptures that I have come to love in   recovery, which didn't mean much to me before.  One is in the first chapter of Isaiah, verses 18 and 19: "Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: