If a snake bites before it is charmed, there is no profit for the charmer. Words from a wise manʼs mouth are gracious, but a fool is consumed by his own lips. At the beginning his words are folly; at […]
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For All the Saints
People born before 1900. Pop, my paternal grandfather, was a circuit-riding Methodist preacher, taught in his youth in a rural one-room school, got the attention of the farmer boys by lifting a boulder they could not move in clearing an […]
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People loved me when I was crazy. I want to be like that and love other people who are crazy. ~ Kaitlan “By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” (John 13:35 NIV) Some […]
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The best discipline is love. ~ For Today (Kindle Location 2086). Tough love is the current term — promotion of a person’s welfare, especially that of an addict, child, or criminal, by enforcing certain constraints on them, or requiring them to […]
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The only requirement for OA membership is a desire to stop eating compulsively. -Tradition Three We welcome newcomers well, understand where they come from, remember the desperation we felt when we got here. Usually we treat those returning from relapse kindly […]
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