There are always ways to put suffering to good use. Suffering is never wasted, but there is a loss. There’s a loss of what we could have been, could have accomplished, could have experienced, could have seen, if we hadn’t […]
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Anonymity
…the principle of anonymity has an immense spiritual significance. It reminds us that we are to place principles before personalities; that we are actually to practice a genuine humility. This to the end that our great blessings may never spoil […]
Continue reading »It’s Private, You Know
I’m a private person, have always been. There’s no way I’d tell my deepest, darkest secrets. But I told my sponsor and she said it was my story but when I was asked to be the speaker at a meeting […]
Continue reading »Trusting Strangers
At the end of the meeting after we’ve talked about our shame, our failures, our defects, the leader calmly reads the admonition, “Please remember our commitment to honor each other’s anonymity. What you hear here, whom you see here, when […]
Continue reading »Mutual Friends
Sarah and Sadie were old friends usually together when in public. One day I was with my sister Jan who had lived here for years, many more than I had. We were at an outdoor market and the turned a […]
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