You hurt me. You didn’t hit me, cause pain, break the skin, loosen a tooth. You scared me when you pinned me against the wall… more than 35 years ago and I still hold a grudge, think less of you […]
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Our Group
We are people who normally would not mix. But there exists among us a fellowship, a friendliness, and an understanding which is indescribably wonderful. ~ Alcoholics Anonymous (Kindle Locations 390-391). We’re an odd lot, a group that would never exist […]
Continue reading »The Key Word in Amends
A sponsor told me the key word in “amends” is “mend.” ~ Vicki W Amend means to change. The change that is amends is mending, healing, repairing, stitching together, healing. Perhaps the damage done is ages old, from early childhood, […]
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Too full a month, a week, a day. Things to do, lists to make to do all the things to do. Twenty-four hours, A thousand four hundred forty minutes, Eighty-six thousand four hundred seconds, all of them full, all committed, […]
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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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