…addiction is the most powerful psychic enemy of humanity’s desire for God….Addiction also makes idolaters of us all, because it forces us to worship these objects of attachment, thereby preventing us from truly, freely loving God and one another. ~ […]
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Can I Really Change the World?
If others’ words or deeds aren’t kind and loving, they are afraid. And I am not at fault. Plain and simple. When I know someone is filled with fear, I am filled with an inner willingness to be kind, […]
Continue reading »Born a Compulsive Overeater?
I BELIEVE I WAS born a compulsive overeater. When I was eighteen months old, my parents found me on the floor, sharing a bone with our labrador retriever. At age three, I discovered “trick or treating”: the next time Mom […]
Continue reading »Physician, Heal Thyself
It’s good and right that I should encourage someone else today. I will pay the same respect to myself, too. ~ Casey, Karen. Each Day a New Beginning: Daily Meditations for Women (Kindle Locations 3279-3280). Hazelden Publishing. Jesus quoted a saying […]
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…there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. ~ Booker T. Washington What was respectable during childhood? Mother’s acceptable behaviors clashed with Grandmom’s, Daddy’s mom. And I took after Grandmom and the rejection rubbed […]
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