I’m ready to start the new diet, to get this weight off. I’ve done it before — often, in fact, and I’m pretty good at it. And this time it’s going to work! I SWEAR I won’t put the pounds back […]
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The Broken Places
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places . ~ Ernest Hemingway I call it my Hell Year — 1997. But I cheat and count October before, son J broke a hand bone five times, had surgery and the […]
Continue reading »Two-Ton Telephone
Bench-pressing three hundred pounds can be easier than picking up the phone — even the one you carry in your hand when it’s for an outreach call, not a comfort one — but calling once it’s done seems so right, so natural, […]
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…detachment…was fairly easy for me. But it was with indifference. Detachment with love was out of the question. ~ Courage to Change, page 100 They talked a while after the others had left. Her wise old friend listened to a reprise of […]
Continue reading »Fear and Faith
Faith is just getting out of fear. Faith and fear can’t exist at the same time. I have faith there’s a power greater than me. There’s no reason to sit in fear. ~ Jhe T. James Like toddler twins trying […]
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