At the first meeting you told me, “Welcome home!” You didn’t ask what I weighed must less lead me to scales. You asked if I was a hugger then you did, hugged me even though I stank and you couldn’t […]
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Do What You Cannot
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. ~ Pablo Picasso “But I’m too weak, I’ll never make it.” Don’t worry; we have all thought and said the same […]
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We can be alone at perfect peace and ease. ~ Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition (Kindle Location 1168) Alone. Tolerable with something to do… even if it’s no longer food, creating the fog. Alone with obsessions…computer games, knitting, reading, research, cleaning, […]
Continue reading »A Little Chunk of Me
Recovery’s the goal, progress presumed, yet expecting perfection jerks me back to disease. An ever shrinking chunk of me remains unrepentant, unreachable, unloveable, ugly. Others enter these rooms obnoxious, argumentative, angry, unloveable. Love, though, knows no bounds, reaches across to unlovely. […]
Continue reading »The Greatest Possession
Cling to the thought that, in God’s hands, the dark past is the greatest possession you have — the key to life and happiness for others. (Alcoholics Anonymous, page 124) Humiliation, shame, rage — hurling dung on the hopes of family, treacherous dealing […]
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