We ate to sate the fears, the anxieties, the angers, the disappointments. We ate to escape the pressures of our problems or the boredom of everyday life. We procrastinated, we hid, and we ate. ~ The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions […]
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Fooled Fool
I could tell myself I was educated, respected, affluent, successful, appreciated, living a meaningful life. I could tell myself those things — I could convince other people they were true, but I couldn’t persuade myself to believe. I knew from […]
Continue reading »A Team Player
I also learned in program that I am enough. When a sports team manager assembles a team, he or she looks to combine a number of players into a single unit. The manager does not expect a group of perfect […]
Continue reading »Wanted: A God I Understand
Position available immediately. God wanted, a challenging position available only to exactly the right deity. Must understand I have more to do that be at the beck and call of an impatient god. Close supervision is not desired. An understanding […]
Continue reading »All In the Family
Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation. ~ Exodus 34:7b (NIV) The sins of the father lead to children punished? […]
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