I came to recovery powerless.
God has given me power. Power is the ability to get things done.
That means God has provided me with the following resources; these I've had to work to acquire, in part:
God has given me power. Power is the ability to get things done.
That means God has provided me with the following resources; these I've had to work to acquire, in part:
- Material resources
- Autonomy
- Competence
- Connections
- And ... oomph (mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual: inner resources)
This works well. The danger is relying on those rather than on the source. Sometimes these resources fail and I have to go back to relying on the source of the resources rather than the resources themselves.
Only then is peace restored.