Stubbornness is ego-driven and fear-based. Perseverance is surrender to my Higher Power and is faith-based. ~ Voices of Recovery (Kindle Location 1164) The character defect of being stubborn, of doggedly blasting on, following the path I’ve chosen no matter how many […]
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Swimming in the Pool
He made a sound of disgust. Did he believe that? Or was it just a part of the cultural pool he’d swum in since he was a kid? ~ Laura Drake, Nothing Sweeter (Sweet on a Cowboy) Sick families. Sharing […]
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My time. Chores done, children asleep, husband reading in bed. Nobody to see me seek comfort in cabinets, solace in sugar, oblivion in stuffing down all the hate, the fear, the resentment, the disappointments… I’m alone with my misery with […]
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The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison. ~ Ann Wigmore If you can’t eat just one… If one is too many and a thousand is not […]
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The grief counselor told the group to be grateful for what they had left. After lots of considering, Charla Rae decided she was grateful for the bull semen. ~ Laura Drake in The Sweet Spot Count your many blessings, name them […]
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