Battery dead. Nothing else near. Waiting. What can you do if not check email, glance at Facebook, look at the calendar, edit the minutes, play blackjack or Angry Birds? What can you do? Try out that Constant Contact that needs […]
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Wide Arms
The Infinite Goodness has such wide arms that it takes whatever turns to it. ~ Dante Alighieri Wide arms. To hug a whole world. Big enough to include compulsive overeaters along with anorexics and bulimics. Large enough to include Jew, […]
Continue reading »Like Car Keys
A common mistake we make is that we look for God in places where we ourselves wish to find him, yet even in the physical reality this is a complete failure. For example, if you lost your car keys, you […]
Continue reading »Jealous of Destitutes
The ability to maintain abstinence through the struggle of homelessness, the pain of emotional relapse, and the fear of financial insecurity are evidence to me of a power greater than myself.~ Voices of Recovery (Kindle Locations 2822-2823). What a powerful testament! […]
Continue reading »This I Know
I know I’m a compulsive overeater, that diets don’t work…for me. They work fine as a plan of eating but the diet idea, the willpower, the weigh-in-front-of-people-for-maximum-humiliation, the attagirls, the rewards you can add back in that for me start […]
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