There’s a world of difference between self-examination and self-awareness. The first means scrutiny of my behavior; the second relates more to my state of being. For me to be successful with the three-fold process of self-examination, meditation, and prayer as […]
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Until It’s Not
It’s all about the food until it isn’t about the food and the way to get away from it being about the food is to work the spiritual principles of the program. ~ Margie The spiritual principles of Overeaters Anonymous. […]
Continue reading »The Past
The regrets, shoulds, ought tos over time accrue and aggregate, solidify and petrify, expand… harden. And as they accumulate, debris sticking, adhering, these emotions harden hearts as well. Minds avoid guilt, shoving it away, hurling it toward bit players on the scene, […]
Continue reading »Words with One Sound
In the beloved 23rd Psalm there are 119 words; 95 are words of one syllable. In the Sermon on the Mount more than 80 per cent are words of one syllable. In the Ten Commandments, on which are based all […]
Continue reading »Once Upon an Angry Liver
Anger resides in the liver, I’m told. Spewing bile, a walking reservoir of venom, jealousy, enmity. Eat, they say, to fix it. Garlic, grapefruit, beets, lemons, greens… Maybe it helps, but other eating helps – abstinence. With a side of […]
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