I was powerless over food when I came to these rooms. No longer, though. I guess you can say I bought my way out. I pay tribute to a power way greater than I, and every day I invest that […]
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Invitation or Obligation?
I need to go to church, have failed to time after time — “next week” which becomes seldom, almost never. I need to go to church, it’s the right thing to do. I was raised in church, have lived in […]
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Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m possible!’ ~ Audrey Hepburn Hopeless, impossible lives led us to these rooms. Here we found acceptance, understanding, friendly faces, kind eyes. Taking proffered hands, we inched out of the pit, a handhold, […]
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I don’t know what I trust in precisely, but it doesn’t matter; I have faith that it works. (Voices of Recovery, Kindle Locations 240-241) Deist, theist, baptist, buddhist, puritan, zen, zoroastrian. Catholic, heretic, pegan, shaman. hindu, voodoo. We believe, in […]
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Willpower is God asking, “Will you give up your power?” – Josh C. We gathered, some eagerly, some going through the motions, doing the work despite emotions pulling elsewhere. We assembled, reading words familiar, comforting, habitual sliding over the words, […]
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