Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning. ~ Psalm 30:5 Easter in the middle of social isolation… Easter bonnets, spiffy new clothes, optional. It’s not the Easter we’re used to but the message resonates, reverberates, […]
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Fitting Everybody In
Four meetings, now, we’ve joined from home acting as if we circled a table, pretending our weekly gathering was in the normal location. Acting as though we had hands to hold to to bring life to the words, I put […]
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I’m doing well. I’ve been practicing for social isolation my entire life. ~ Anonymous All the lonely people Where do they all come from? All the lonely people Where do they all belong?* In these days of encouraged/enforced social isolation […]
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His admission is the beginning of humility—at least the newcomer is willing to disclaim that he himself is God. That’s all the start he needs. If, following this achievement, he will relax and practice as many of the Steps as […]
Continue reading »Easy In Your Harness
You have freedom when you’re easy in your harness. ~ Robert Frost At a meeting of Overeaters Anonymous we read in Voices of Recovery, “I have always felt apart from the human race. I felt I had to be better than […]
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