Jessica L. Morris

“Grant me to recognize in other men, Lord God, the radiance of your own face.” – Teilhard de Chardin When I read this prayer in my little book of prayers yesterday morning, it took my breath away. This is one of those ideas that I have heard often over the years, but conveniently forget about…

“Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.” Mark 11:24 (NIV) When I was a child, this verse told me that all I had to do to get whatever I wanted was to pray and ask for it. With this thought process,…

Every morning on my way to work, I pass an auto body shop where inspirational messages are posted under the company’s name on a small billboard. For the last week or so, the message was posted as follows: God Reaches And Christ Embraces When I first saw the message, I smiled. While I have always…

Then, because so many people were coming and going that they did not even have a chance to eat, he said to them, “Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest.” Mark 6:31 (NIV) “Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest.” Ah, what a…

“He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time till at length it becomes habitual.” – Thomas Jefferson One of the most wonderful gifts I have received as I have worked to recover from my addictions is the realization that being dishonest –…

“Denial of the truth leads to destruction.” – The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Overeaters Anonymous, pg. 6 Obviously a person living in denial of their addiction and all that it is doing to harm them and the people around them is moving toward self-destruction. Yet, when I was the one living in that…

As a person who spent the first 29 years of her existence in active food addiction, I can honestly share that I have eaten an enormous amount of grub in my lifetime. That said, I cannot say that I truly tasted any of it. Most of what I was doing in those days was shoving…