07 April Vulnerability Teaches Us to Trust Page 101 “Each time we make ourselves vulnerable and find someone there for us, we come to a new level of safety and trust.” Living Clean, Chapter 5, “Fellowship” Working Step Five with a sponsor can feel like baring our underbellies. We summon up enough honesty, humility, and courage to admit the exact nature of our wrongs. Despite our conviction that we’re doing the right thing, sharing our inventories can make us feel exposed. Being vulnerable can be an unnatural state for addicts; it tears down our hardened defenses. Sharing our inventory is…

My Pastoral Ponderings Skip to content  Posted on April 4, 2021  Rolling the Stone Away: My Easter Sermon on Mark 16:1-8 Very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they went to the tomb. They had been saying to one another, “Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance to the tomb?” Mark 16:1-8 That first Easter morning, when the women made their way to the tomb, they had just one question on their minds: “Who will roll away the stone for us?” For it was a very large stone. It would have taken about…