If you had a thorn in your foot, would you decide not to extract until New Year, or National Pulling Thorns out of Feet Day? If you were 20, would you wait until you were 40 before you extracted that […]
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Growth Is the Opposite of Control
There is struggle in the growth process; pride, ego and misused will stand in the way and must be overcome gradually, with understanding and compassion. Pain is always the teacher, but with each period of growth it becomes less acute. […]
Continue reading »A Halo or a Noose?
As musician Dan McKinnon put it, “It takes only a short fall for a halo to become a noose.” ~ Cohen, Alan. A Course in Miracles Made Easy (p. 60). Hay House. Kindle Edition. Songfacts.com says, “This is about what drugs […]
Continue reading »The Taproot
The principle that we shall find no enduring strength until we first admit complete defeat is the main taproot from which our whole Society has sprung and flowered. ~ AA World Services Inc. Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (pp. 21-22). AA […]
Continue reading »Like Gasoline for a Car
The First Step serves me as gasoline does an automobile: I draw regularly on the reservoir of acceptance of my powerlessness, but have to stop from time to time to fill up again on the insight that I will never […]
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