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 […]
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Ourselves
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. ~ Step 4 Well, sure, it’s important. Folks need to figure out how messed up their lives are, and then delve in and realize they did it to themselves. You […]
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 […]
Continue reading »The Pinocchio Effect
It’s simple cause and effect, the desire to look good, the need to tell others what we want them to believe, our truth as we’ve constructed it. But the result isn’t an improved image but a lowered head…not really because […]
Continue reading »Every Secret
But they had not learned enough of humility, fearlessness and honesty, in the sense we find it necessary, until they told someone else all their life story. ~ Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition (Kindle Locations 1142-1143). It’s not really the secret. If […]
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