Fire tests the purity of silver and gold, but a person is tested by being praised. ~ Proverbs 27:21 NLT Why would being praised test a person? It’s a common problem with Recovery people… or was, before the “recovering.” We believed in […]
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Don’t Look at Me!!!
Fear that people would know the real me kept me from divulging the real me. Why risk rejection? The irony is that, in wanting to avoid rejection, I isolated myself, which put me in the same solitary, lonely position that […]
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I will spend more time with myself in this lifetime than with anyone else. Let me learn to be the kind of person I would like to have as a friend. ~ Family Groups, Al-Anon. Courage to Change—One Day at a […]
Continue reading »Waste of Soul Substance
… a waste of time, a waste of the soul substance which is lavished upon a lie. ~ Fox, Emmet. Find and Use Your Inner Power (p. 27). New Albany. Kindle Edition. What pulls you into negativity? Jealousy? Longing for good […]
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