The answer for me is never chocolate. I know, for I applied it liberally more than half-a-hundred years, it failing to deliver one iota of comfort of any lasting sense, as some lalent legacy. Instead I learned how miserably the […]
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Alien
“Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.” This, to me, was the true “action” Step. It required asking the power outside of myself to change me, to make me something alien to myself. ~ Voices of Recovery (Kindle Locations 2084-2087). […]
Continue reading »Outwardly Pious, Inwardly Stubborn
Outwardly pious, inwardly stubborn. We appear righteous when we obey enough cultural traditions and verbally reject cultural taboos. ~ Jo Helen Cox We follow the rules until they rule us, become monarchs with a life of their own and stand […]
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Of the things we think, say or do 1. Is it the TRUTH? 2. Is it FAIR to all concerned? 3. Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS? 4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned? ~ The Rotary Four-Way […]
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Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back again. ~ Frances Rodman The Rotary program on Zambia — touching, but I’d seen it. Different hemisphere, other countries, but […]
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