Entreat me not to leave you or to return from following you; for where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God…” ~ Ruth 1:16 […]
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Stupid!
“This is stupid!” I said it aloud, getting into my car, talking to God. The subject of the comment was my purchase at the convenience store ironically named “Skinny’s.” I had in my hands an apple fritter and a cappuccino. […]
Continue reading »My Third First Meeting
I’d been to OA a dozen years earlier and dismissed it, a babbling crowd chanting nonsense, acting silly… or so it seemed. Oh, how I wish I’d stayed. I decided to try again one mid-December, eight days before Christmas, but […]
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Next Week I’ve got a big week next week and a stuffy nose and deep cough tonight. I need to be able to function in seven days, and my eyes hurt, can’t focus, feel so very tired. My husband is […]
Continue reading »You People!
I come in here embarrassed, eaten with grief, and you hug me. I tell my deepest darkest secret and tears run down my face but when the next person starts to share I find myself blotting a tear and laughing […]
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