Our Society then entered a fearsome and exciting adolescent period. The test that it faced was this: Could these large numbers of erstwhile erratic alcoholics successfully meet and work together? Would there be quarrels over membership, leadership, and money? Would […]
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A Matter of Faith
I was telling my Higher Power that I had more faith in food than in Him. ~ Voices of Recovery (Kindle Location 2739) Saying grace comes natural, Thanks for the food, bless it… oh, and God, make me lose weight, […]
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True deprivation is how I lived before OA—in bondage to food and fat. ~ Voices of Recovery (Kindle Location 2756) How do you hide an excess hundred pounds? How can you think eating alone hides the truth from anyone at […]
Continue reading »I Who Love Myself
Loving myself, I can love you. When I don’t love me, I can’t love you. I can serve you, worship you, disdain you, analyze you, lionize you, celebrate you, envy you, fear you, resent you, covet you, depend on you, […]
Continue reading »Contempt
We’ve no need to agree… you’re free to think your thoughts and I’ll honor them, agreeing of not. We’ve no need to lie, to pretend, to dismiss real needs, yours or mine. We have the right to disagree. But we […]
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