July 20 – God Does the Work

The Daily Ripples Podcast · Jul 20, 2026 · 13m · transcript

Paris steps up to the mic solo for the first time today, and brings a message that turns "self-improvement" on its head: the real work of transformation was never ours to manage in the first place. Walking through Step Five's hard truth that secrets kept buried have a way of pulling people back toward relapse, Paris traces the shift from white-knuckling change to simply becoming honest enough for healing to begin — leaning on Philippians' call to "work out your own salvation" alongside the promise of a new heart replacing one of stone. The takeaway lands simple and freeing: the question isn't…