Abstinence is not always foremost in our minds, but it is always there when we are threatened by a return to old thoughts and cravings. Compulsive overeating was concentration on food; abstinence is concentration on recovery. L., Elisabeth. Food for […]
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Learning to Pray
May I begin to feel prayer, not just listen to the sound of my own verbalizing. May I feel the sharp outlines of my humanness fading as His Godliness becomes a part of me. May I feel that I am […]
Continue reading »A Dozen Years
…Until December 17, 2006. Driving to Sunday school where I’d taught the same class more than 20 years, I stopped at a convenience store. The routine, both Sundays and weekdays, varied only in the name over the door of the […]
Continue reading »Dancing Step Three
…turning our will over is like dancing with a partner. If both try to lead, there is much confusion and little forward movement. As one who has taught many couples how to dance, I know the awkwardness and bucking that […]
Continue reading »Be Who You Are
Learn what you are and be such. Pendar We come to the rooms of Recoveryunaware of who we are.The insanity of addiction has createdthe only god we worship,whether it be alcohol, sugar,carbohydrates, drugs, sex, gambling…or some combination or succession of […]
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