I love you more easily than myself, feel for you, ache for you, as you walk into these rooms. Your pain, fear, desperation confound my heart with memories— no, far too calm a word. Residual angst, assonance, antiphony. You and […]
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No Residual Battle
“When the individual accepts, on an unconscious level, the reality of not being able to handle compulsive overeating, there is no residual battle.” ~ Overeaters Anonymous, Second Edition. I surrender. I put down my weapons — fear, rationalization, denial, rebellion. […]
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If I did not look fear in the face, I would not know what it was made of; and if I did not know my fears, I would not feel them. Compulsive overeating did an admirable job of helping me […]
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Telling God what to do — even if in the form of requests, prayers — controls nothing. God takes no orders from me. Nor does life make sense, at least sometimes. Important times. God told Job it was none of […]
Continue reading »To Speak for God
Dear Lord of life, my hope, my joy — I see your path for me. You ask that I be your envoy To set your people free. You call for me to teach and lead The high, the low, the […]
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