When you think of your dreams as “what ifs,” you free them of any limitations. ~ Dean, Amy E. Morning Light: A Book of Meditations to Begin Your Day (Kindle Locations 2563-2564). Hazelden Publishing. Kindle Edition. Longing for what we thought […]
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My Prayer Garden
I gave up gardening more than sixty years ago having bought a packet of cabbage seeds (what to do but plant them all?) and having dozens of heads with nobody fond of eating them. Now the scene has changed. Every morning […]
Continue reading »The Spirit of the Universe
In Recovery we speak of God as we understand God. But God doesn’t have to be God… or Allah or Yahweh or Jehovah or Demiurge or Ariel or Mars, Jupiter, Diana, Zeus, Apollo, Igaluk, Nanook, Nerrivik, Pinga, Sedna, Torngasoak, or any […]
Continue reading »Listen to the Silence
Listen to the silence underneath the sounds. ~ Tolle, Eckhart. The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment (p. 63). New World Library. Kindle Edition. “Be still and know that I am God.” “Silence is a source of great […]
Continue reading »Practice these Principles
Step 12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to compulsive overeaters and to practice these principles in all our affairs. We practice these principles in all our affairs. But […]
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