Someone who knew what he was talking about once remarked that pain was the touchstone of all spiritual progress. ~ AA World Services Inc. Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (pp. 93-94). AA World Services, Inc. Kindle Edition. Is it true […]
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Shocking!
I am shocked that you are turning away so soon from God, who called you to himself through the loving mercy of Christ. (Galatians 1:6, NLT) Above all, he believed he had acquired such a profound knowledge of the inner […]
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We don’t have to let flack pull us back into old ways if we’ve decided we want and need to change. ~ Beattie, Melody. The Language of Letting Go: Hazelden Meditation Series (p. 80). Hazelden Publishing. Kindle Edition. Real dictionaries […]
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We come in adult bodies, all ages, sizes, descriptions. We come with unmanageable lives, tied to substances that comfort us. We stay as both the adult who came, better able to cope, but also as the children within, learning to […]
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The “diet” began at age thirteen with diet pills, I meandered through “chubby” clothes the 1/2 tag, slacks wearing out first at the inner thighs, chiding comments from Mother and others, called in Red Rover by the description, “Let Fat […]
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