“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.” Ralph Waldo Emerson Do you get in your own way? Do you block yourself off from sunshine? Do you direct your attention to others’ lives […]
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Love Anyway. It Comes Back.
So I reflected on all this and concluded that the righteous and the wise and what they do are in Godʼs hands, but no man knows whether love or hate awaits him. All share a common destiny – the righteous […]
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. ~ Henry Ward Beecher One day at a time. We can’t manage the one, need not try for […]
Continue reading »Eight Years of Recovery Daily Dose
A simple event, really, a poem first published in OAStepper’s Slender Steps to Sanity: IN YOUR FACE April 5, 2011 You don’t know what it’s like, I’m a grievance to my folk, an anathema in my job, a worthless piece of […]
Continue reading »What’s the Matter Here?
We feel a man is unthinking when he says that sobriety is enough. He is like the farmer who came up out of his cyclone cellar to find his home ruined. To his wife, he remarked, “Don’t see anything the […]
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