by Mary B Safrit | Aug 14, 2019 | Christian Living, Teaching
Step 12: Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to [others], and to practice these principles in all our affairs. I resent dirty dishes. It doesn’t matter how many times I clean them, there they are again, sitting...
by Mary B Safrit | Aug 7, 2019 | Christian Living, Teaching
Step 11: Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out. The stinging pain of the needle repeatedly poking into my skin had dulled....
by Mary B Safrit | Jul 31, 2019 | Christian Living, Teaching
Step 10: Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. Between my first and second years of grad school, I participated in a summer program called Greensboro Light Opera and Song. The stories from those six weeks are legion and...
by Mary B Safrit | Jul 17, 2019 | Relationships and Community, Teaching
Step 9: Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. We pick up the tale of Mr. Goose this week at the moment of making amends and telling my parents what happened. Every week, our main teacher sent us home...
by Mary B Safrit | Jul 10, 2019 | Relationships and Community, Teaching
Step 8: Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all. In the eighth grade, I had this math teacher whomst shall be known as Mr. Goose. Well, I had four different math teachers that year, but Mr. Goose was particularly...
