Make peace with outrageous abundance. ~ Abraham I can make a book, cook supper, design a web page. write a poem. I can knit a sweater that doesn’t fit, play a crazy lady convincingly, paint with acrylics, make a three-foot […]
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The Real Prize
Did you suffer so many things in vain—if indeed it was in vain? ~ Galatians 3:4 (NASB) We are unable, at certain times, to bring into our consciousness with sufficient force the memory of the suffering and humiliation of even […]
Continue reading »Words Bite like Snakes
If a snake bites before it is charmed, there is no profit for the charmer. Words from a wise manʼs mouth are gracious, but a fool is consumed by his own lips. At the beginning his words are folly; at […]
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I descended into a horrific food rock bottom, which finally convinced me that compulsive overeating is a progressive, dangerous, and slow-killing disease of mind, body, and spirit. My slide was halted only by seeking help from fellow OA members and […]
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Both the one who makes men holy and those who are made holy are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters. ~Hebrews 2:11 (NIV) We are like the passengers of a great […]
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