When people share the mess instead of the message, at meetings or elsewhere, I realize that I am not alone in getting things backward. ~ Voices of Recovery (Kindle Locations 3353-3363). Sharing the mess, talking about what’s wrong, not in the […]
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Chattle or Champion
“If a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as male servants do. If she does not please the master who has selected her for himself, he must let her be redeemed. He has no […]
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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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Sometimes the greatest beauty is in the darkest storm. ~ A. L. Jackson A beautiful storm?Who lived through a hurricane, a tornado, a hailstorm and carries the impression of a beautiful storm? May, 1970, I woke in Brownfield, Texas. The […]
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