My grandsons earn an M&M by complying with potty training. Decades earlier clerks at banks gave their dad a piece of candy when he was in the car going through the drive-through. Small rewards for small people… and perhaps not […]
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Doubt in Spiritual Seeking
Doubt is an unavoidable companion of spiritual seeking. ~ Courage to Change, page 69 Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother the Lebanese poet said. Doubt is pain of insecurity, of uncertainty, of confusion. […]
Continue reading »Hostage Holding
Don’t take a hostage you’re not willing to shoot. ~ Mike Conaway Resentments hold two people captive — the one holding it as the prison guard of the one resented, and both are just as bound. What do you do to […]
Continue reading »Freedom of (from?) Bad Choices
Looking back, we see that our freedom to choose badly was not, after all, a very real freedom. ~ Bill W. I have the right to eat trash, to ignore medical advice, to put chemicals and poisons in me, to disobey […]
Continue reading »Subtraction, Not Addition
Nowhere in Steps Four through Seven do we ask God to add anything, but rather to take away the things we do not need. ~ Courage to Change, page 65. I have it all, everything I need. Actually more, truth be told. […]
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