Surrender is the giving up of something specific - a specific temptation to lust for instance. The temptation is real and it is there in this moment. I can surrender it. That is a choice I can still make. But once...
Just the other day, I went to a restaurant that I frequent, expecting it to be a safe place. So point 1, I was avoiding the near occasion of sin, as my mother used to say. I didn't deliberatedly go to...
In my full-scale acting out days, any talk from my wife about traveling away from home immediately triggered my sexaholic mind into lust and a whole lot of obsessive thinking about how great it was going to be to...
Lust: Ladies and gentlemen of the press, I appreciate you responding at such short notice. As a Capital Sin, I'm not much on Patience - that's more in the Virtues' line. (laughter)
I'm here to...
Since I'm a sexaholic, lust fantasies have been a huge part of my past lusting behavior. Surrendering those to God is what works for me.
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Just when I think I'm doing ok... I'm probably mistaken. I am powerless over lust and my addiction creeps in when I least expect it. Rigorous honesty - but also rigorous attention to my emotions and needs - is key...
I've been musing about the kind of advice Lụst would hand out if it ran a newspaper column. If it's anything like the advice it's been giving me daily for decades, I imagine it would be something like this:...
