Shaming myself for falling back into old behaviors is an old behavior in itself, and it helps keep me in all my character defects longer. ~ Voices of Recovery (Kindle Locations 2101-2102). Old habits die hard. And the mental habits […]
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The Big Picture for the Insecure
What can be more of a nothing than the lowly five of clubs? In bridge, clubs are the lowest suit and in any context…trying for high or for low, wouldn’t it seem useless? But it’s not! A hundred ninety-two combinations […]
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Step Seven is freedom from running the show. ~ Heard in a meeting Step Seven. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings. Freedom from running the show. I can’t control which defects go once I become willing to let them. […]
Continue reading »Like a Radio
Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. ~ Jim Morrison Carry pain like a radio. Well, not many folks do… carry radios, that is. I trooped through the grocery today, […]
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Why should I stare at the night sky, ponder the distances, enjoy the beauty, wonder about fundamental questions of life here, of life there, of living? Why should I try for recovery, for turning everything over to God or Power […]
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