If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through. We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness. ~ The Big Book and A Study Guide of […]
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Until It’s Not
It’s all about the food until it isn’t about the food and the way to get away from it being about the food is to work the spiritual principles of the program. ~ Margie The spiritual principles of Overeaters Anonymous. […]
Continue reading »An Empty Trunk
I look at my trunk where I used to have a lot of junk – and it’s empty! ~ Renee GaskinI k Trunks of junk, drawers of junk, boxes of junk, piles of junk, clutter and litter and heaps, muddles and […]
Continue reading »Words with One Sound
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 […]
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 […]
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