Willpower, finely honed through years of wear against compulsion, against behaviors relegated to private moments, hidden from sight, secret obsessions. Willpower, threadbare, exhausted, torpid, inert, deceased. These truths resonate, define not just my life but my resolve…. Why, then, do […]
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Worse than Sticks and Stones
Not one hurtful thing about me that hit my ears has ever left my mind. (Travis Cottrell, Surprised By Worship) You hurt me, don’t you recall? In 1982 – On Golden Pond. How can you have forgotten what you said that day? […]
Continue reading »Pain, the Teacher
A note in explanation: Barbara Rollins, author with OAStepper of A Cloud of Witnesses, fell three weeks ago, damaging multiple tendons plus artery and nerve, and finds herself in pain with one functional hand for the foreseeable future. Proofreading the […]
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A holy person is one whose body, mind, and spirit share an equality that was (and is) the intention and plan of God for all men. [Overeaters Anonymous, Second Edition (Kindle Locations 3067-3068)] The three-legged stool – or is it a throne? […]
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I’m ready to do business. (Alcoholics Anonymous, page 159) Doing business is agreement, contract, commitment. Telling the world your new name. Success comes from a plan, relying on folks with knowledge of the path. The while picture, not bits, pieces, […]
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