I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you. ~ Judges 2:3 KJV (story told by Quanah Parker) Gods we put before […]
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Capable of Reasoning?
If steppers were capable of reasoning, there wouldn’t be any steppers. “It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.”–Voltaire ~ Reverend B What chains do we revere? This is like the question raised in the Big Book, […]
Continue reading »Sharing the Mess
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 […]
Continue reading »On the Pentacle of Life
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 […]
Continue reading »Reluctance
Some of the things I need to tell you…I don’t want to tell you. ~ Kitt M Secrets are my life. I’ve come to understand it’s for my own good, it’s important to share, for when I’m holding secrets I […]
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