Taking care of myself means I’ve made a decision that it’s okay to feel. ~ Melody Beattie. The Language of Letting Go: Hazelden Meditation Series (p. 362). It’s okay…even desirable to feel the feelings that in my mind for half-a-dozen […]
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The Carpenter’s Hands
Jeremiah watched a potter’s work, saw him destroy his ware, squash it back to clay, understood a parable of God’s giving up on Israel, balling it up, beginning again. Six hundred years later a carpenter lived, knew God as nobody […]
Continue reading »Not Waiting Now
We cannot afford to put our needs on hold, waiting for another person to fulfill us, make our life better, or come around and be who and what we want that person to be. That will create resentment, hostility, an […]
Continue reading »For Myself
For myself: I am powerless over food. No matter how much I wish to control my eating, I cannot. I am a compulsive overeater, no matter what my mind may have to say on the matter. ~ Overeaters Anonymous, For Today […]
Continue reading »Something’s Wrong with Me!
It is a spiritual axiom that every time we are disturbed, no matter what the cause, there is something wrong with us. ~ AA World Services Inc. Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (p. 90). There’s a difference between rebuilding self-esteem, if […]
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