Karen Bables
Welcome to my blog about living as apprentices of Jesus! I am passionate about spiritual transformation and about helping others become like Jesus for the sake of others.
One of my favorite quotes is: "Whatever job we get and whatever task we are assigned can serve as a container for grace" (Eugene Peterson in "Practical Resurrection"). I pray that the words and sentences on this blog may also serve as "containers of grace" for its readers.
I ordinarily post on Wednesdays and Saturdays and welcome your comments on any post!
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Tag Archives: Enabling
Letting Go for Lent – Enabling
We have entered the season of Lent, a period of 40 days before Easter when Christians traditionally lament over their sins and then, in response, choose something to give up such as chocolate or Facebook or alcohol. The idea is to daily … Continue reading
Posted in Letting Go for Lent
Tagged Beyond Codependence, codependence, Codependence No More, Enabling, helping, Melodie Beattie
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“Not a Plan but a Posture” – Final Post for Live your Calling
Most Christians put great thought and energy into determining what our “call” might be. Ryan Pemberton makes a helpful distinction between God’s call on our lives and our personal calling: “Christian calling means being called by the living, resurrected Christ … Continue reading
Posted in Live Your Calling
Tagged Called, Called: My Journey to C.S. Lewis' House and Back Again, Enabling, Let Your Life Speak, On Being, Parker Palmer, Ryan Pemberton
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When Helping Hurts
LIVING AS APPRENTICES I have shared a lot recently about my life as a co-dependent enabler. I talk about the years in my past when I (subconsciously) sought out needy people with the goal of “fixing” them. I point out … Continue reading
Posted in Living as Apprentices, Uncategorized
Tagged Enabling, On Being, Seane Corn
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My Surrender
MY JOURNEY Co-dependency. Enabling. I had no idea what those words meant. But I lived them out with all my passion for decades. After my life came to a screeching debacle, and I learned what those words meant, I wanted … Continue reading
Posted in My journey, The 12 Steps and Spiritual Formation
Tagged co-dependency, Enabling, helping others, surrender, The Twelve Steps
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The Beauty of Shadow Boxing – Part 1
LIVING AS APPRENTICES My favorite definition for the term spiritual formation comes from M. Robert Mulholland: “the process of conforming to the image of Jesus for the sake of others.” And my favorite expression of that process is a phrase … Continue reading
Why it is so hard to love
Living as Apprentices Here’s a thought from Beatrice Bruteau in The Grand Option “I think the reason why we find it so hard to take our place in the Great Community is just because we have not clearly sorted out … Continue reading
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Tagged Enabling, Thomas Merton
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Living as Apprentices 