One foot in the room, I stare at recovery, at peace, longing for joy lighting their faces. I haven’t done so badly — self-sufficient, quick, able to talk out of scraps. “Half measures” they call it like they can read my mind. […]
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Learning To LIVE love
How do I love you?Let me count the ways.Cooking for you,cleaning for you,waiting on you hand and foot,taking orders, running interference… Wait. That’s not love, is it?Love goes both ways,in the touch of a hand,wanting to help, a kind word,a […]
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Don’t be such a baby. Grow up, will you??? What’s the matter, not tough enough?That’s SO juvenile!You’re such a child!When I became a man,I put away childish things. Let the children come to me,God’s kingdom belongs tosuch as them. Don’t we need to […]
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The very practical approach to his problems, the absence of intolerance of any kind, the informality, the genuine democracy, the uncanny understanding which these people had were irresistible.§ “Welcome home!”How silly the wordssaid to newcomers,strangers among strangers,fear-filled, angry, despairing. “Welcome […]
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That submission wasn’t just a single act, however. It became a daily duty; it had to be that. Daily I am renewed in strength and I have never come to the point where I have wanted to say, “Thanks, God, […]
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