When your pants are on fire and you’re standing by a river don’t ask why, just jump in. ~ Kristen (paraphrase) Analysis has been my mainstay but has become my stake, the stick that holds me fast — but to […]
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Living or Dying
I couldn’t go on living the way I was dying. ~ Gary A country song talks of living like you were dying, of letting go and going for broke, doing both at the same time, emphasis on life. But addiction […]
Continue reading »God’s Flag
God says, “It’s got to be my flag, I don’t salute anybody’s flag.” (I can’t figure out where I copied this from, but probably something on the radio.) Respect is earned, merited, tied to the recipient — what they’ve done […]
Continue reading »Phony Respectability
Self-righteousness, the very thing that we had contemptuously condemned in others, was our own besetting evil. This phony form of respectability was our undoing, so far as faith was concerned. ~ Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, Alcoholics Anonymous, page 30. […]
Continue reading »Receiving Grace
The love of God and man we understood not at all. Therefore we remained self-deceived, and so incapable of receiving enough grace to restore us to sanity. ~ Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, Alcoholics Anonymous, page 31. Grace, the gift […]
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