Belief meant reliance, not defiance. ~ Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, Alcoholics Anonymous, page 31. Belief. An opinion, a view, an achievement of logic to accept a premise. Shall we discuss, debate, analyze, flesh out? Colleagues collaborating, equals scrutinizing. But […]
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Simple as Porridge
Haiku, as Jack Kerouac once said, should be as simple as porridge. ~ Michael Dylan Welch How simple is porridge? As familiar as nursery rhymes and mysterious as hasty pudding — which turns out to be about the same. Speak of […]
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Don’t water your weeds. ~ Harvey Mackay I can’t get rid on the weeds in my life — the defects of character — any more effectively than I could shed pounds and keep the new weight. I’m powerless over food, […]
Continue reading »Who Are You to Say
“Who are you to say there is no God?” ~ Alcoholics Anonymous (Kindle Location 851) My facts are my facts and I will defend them, argue them, rationalize them, stand on them even when doubt creeps like a vine tangling […]
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All things are difficult before they are easy. ~ Thomas Fuller They call it a simple program, simple but not easy, destruction of self-centeredness required. Tough, near-impossible — to give up a lifelong obsession with getting it right, finding willpower, […]
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