I had a plan, an excellent idea, to repair my life, to become for once all I had ever hoped to be. I had a plan and tried for years… for decades… but I could not repair the wreck I made […]
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Hide and Seek
God seems to have hidden holiness and wholeness in a secret place where only the humble will find it. ~ Richard Rohr, Breathing Under Water: Spirituality and the Twelve Steps (p. 2). Legends, fables, parables. Truths are found in simple stories […]
Continue reading »The God Box
The burden of the world bends you, breaks you, leaves you looking at dirt… sometimes with it in your mouth. That burden, insurmountable, but transferrable. Simple. Commit the concern to writing. Designate a container your God Box. Insert the writing […]
Continue reading »My Compass, My Guide
God teaches me this, and He is my compass, my guide. ~ Voices of Recovery (Kindle Location 978). A compass shows my location relative to cardinal positions, to points, a role performed more than two thousand years. Can it be compared […]
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9. OA, as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve. ~ OA Tradition 9 We laughed at this last week, the never organized thing. We had the leader’s […]
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