Wake up, get on the scales before breakfast, naked. Eat the breakfast you serve the family. Garb a cappuccino and apple fritter on your way to work, dump trash at recycling center a couple blocks from work. Run in and […]
Continue reading »Category: Bondage of Self
That’s Sanity
I feel a calmness and a confidence that produce realistic expectations under adversity. Now that’s sanity. ~Voices of Recovery (Kindle Locations 455-456). The program talks of coming to believe a Power greater than I could restore me to sanity? What?? […]
Continue reading »The First Addiction
After twenty-four years in the program, I began to see that self-hatred was my first addiction. ~ Overeaters Anonymous, Third Edition (Kindle Locations 869-870). Some of us were chubby toddlers, never healthy body weights, some ideal weight into our twenties then […]
Continue reading »Leadership
One wise person is stronger than ten leading citizens of a town! ~ Ecclesiastes 7:19 (New Living Translation) Don’t dress that way – people will talk. Don’t say things like that – others won’t approve. The rules of our parents? […]
Continue reading »Surrender Means Surrender
And Jesus answered and said to him, “It is said, ‘YOU SHALL NOT PUT THE LORD YOUR GOD TO THE TEST.’ ” ~ New American Standard Bible – NASB 1995 (Kindle Locations 44740-44742). How often do we try to manipulate […]
Continue reading »