BAG OF TOOLS:

Who would try to nail boards together without a hammer
or change a flat tire without a jack? To deny our need for
tools would be ridiculous, wouldn't it? Yet many of us have
trouble accepting that we need tools to repair our damaged

self-esteem.

Sheer force of will won't lift a car so that a bad tire can be
replaced and it won't lift a heavy burden from our spirits either.
Insight and knowledge of carpentry can't pound a nail – nor
can insight and knowledge, without the help of tools, pound
the dents out of our battered psyches.

It isn't weak or shameful to admit that a human finger isn't a
screwdriver and a human eye isn't a microscope. Why do we
resist the idea that spiritual work, like physical work, has its
own set of tools? Reading, sharing, praying, and attending our
support group's meetings – these are the tools that help us do

the job. They aren't optional niceties or crutches. If we need to
lay a new foundation, we need to dig a big hole. And if we need
to dig a hole, we'd better be willing to use a shovel.

My willingness to use the tools determines the outcome of the job.

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