The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming – not the realities themselves. For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to […]
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Being Unsettled the Source of Hope
This old age ought not to creep on a human mind. In nature every moment is new; the past is always swallowed and forgotten; the coming only is sacred. Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit. No love […]
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I say thank you and goodbye to each pound I lose because they served their purpose but they are no longer needed. I don’t need to use food to find happiness or for punishment, that was the old me. ~ […]
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If our Higher Power is not at the center of our lives, we will find it difficult (if not impossible) to be emotionally abstinent. ~ L., Elisabeth. Food for Thought: Daily Meditations for Overeaters. Hazelden Publishing. Kindle Edition. What does it […]
Continue reading »Escaping the Squirrel Cage That’s my Mind
…the unknown, that free-floating world of happenings uncluttered by the squirrel cages of my control. I wasn’t willing to trust. I wasn’t willing to learn or change. I wasn’t even willing to be willing, and that is the first condition […]
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