All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily. ~ C McCarthy When cowardice controls me, fear taking over, being in charge, the cowardice is an entity, […]
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Make Your Own God
My friend suggested what then seemed a novel idea. He said, “Why don’t you choose your own conception of God?” ~ Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition (Kindle Locations 454-455). In the beginning God created. Many centuries later in the beginning of […]
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Stubbornness is ego-driven and fear-based. Perseverance is surrender to my Higher Power and is faith-based. ~ Voices of Recovery (Kindle Location 1164). Perseverance – steadfastness, sure, dependable, reliable, constant, unwavering. Wouldn’t unwavering be closer to stubbornness, not perseverance? Certainly there’s kinship […]
Continue reading »Three-Legged Stool
Therefore, since the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be found to have fallen short of it. For we also have had the good news proclaimed to us, just as they did; […]
Continue reading »From My Prison
It is a prison: a body miserable in excess, unable to cross legs, to sit on the floor… then stand without mimicking a camel rolling to his feet. It is a prison: terminal ugliness, gross, grotesque, too lazy/tired/depressed for cleanliness, […]
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