Author: Saunter

  • Spiritual Exercises

    JMJC 1. Seeking the face of God and active religious devotion to God as heavenly Father, Christ as personal savior, and Holy Spirit as advocate, comforter, and protector; offering one’s entire self to God and accepting his will in place of your own 2. Devotion to Mary as heavenly mother and perpetual help 3. Appealing…

  • Spiritual Stretching

    JMJC One morning I could not, not, not keep my mind off the body of a woman I would see in a meeting later that day. Later upon seeing her in person, my mind raced with fantasies of undressing her, touching her skin, a life together, a night together, … But throughout these lustful thoughts…

  • Willing Surrender

    JMJC Though God is always embracing us, we have a baffling capacity to ignore him in our times of strength. Eventually the world tears us down, and this suffering also tears down the veil of our strength. In these moments of weakness, we again recognize his presence and are ‘most near’ Christ, who came to…

  • Christ, Guide Me…

    JMJC Christ opens a narrow path for us out of the great sea of sin, and it is our responsibility to take the right steps. To our left and to our right are sins of every kind, but forward is the path of sanctification. Though we will not pass through life completely dry, we will…

  • Holy Name of Jesus

    JMJC Place your mind squarely on Jesus. See him laying on the cross suffering for the sin you’re wanting to commit. See the nail you’re driving in with every lustful thought and action. The agony you’re causing him as his body writhes and face contorts. The spear you’re driving into his side to ensure your…

  • Spiritual Warfare

    JMJC Spiritual warfare is real, and removing the coping mechanisms of pornography, masturbation, and other forms of sexual acting out forces us to face our wounds. We will want to do almost anything to escape this discomfort like a rat trapped in a burning bucket. The trick though is that porn, masturbation, and other means…

  • Wisdom of Solomon

    JMJC Solomon had the choice of receiving anything from God in the entire world, and he chose wisdom. God respected Solomon’s choice so much that he gave Solomon wisdom and everything else he could have hoped for in unfathomable quantity. The Book of Proverbs is made up of 31 chapters. Read 1-2 chapters each day…

  • Castle & Moat

    JMJC One method I use to preserve chastity is to create a moat around my truly worst behaviors. This moat I may enter but shall not fully cross. For example, I first chose drinking alcohol and using drugs as the activities I would never ever engage in (‘the Castle’), but I would still occasionally slip…

  • Cooperative Self-Care

    JMJC Lust and sexual sin are often characterized as coping, and any attempts to flee this sin will force us to face the stockpile of wounds and traumas we had been attempting to cope with. Fortunately, there are countless ‘healthy coping‘ skills to choose from and build upon. These also have the multiplier benefits of…

  • A Personal Story

    JMJC On January 17, 2019, God freed me from alcohol abuse and began a cascade of reprieves from drugs, sexual acting out, compulsive eating, compulsive caffeination, and emotional intoxication. In 2022, still in the obsession of compulsive eating, I experienced back pain so severe that I was bedridden for two weeks. Months later God miraculously…