I’ve sat here, hours each week, more than twenty-three years, same room, same clock. I lay on a table last Friday, thinking, opening, praying. I asked for greater awareness of my surroundings, better usage of my senses. Maybe it’s not […]
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Recovery Is Like the Birds
A friend of mine from half a continent away stood at my kitchen window looking at the bird feeder I’d put up in her honor and named birds there, in my yard, I’d never heard of. I told her once […]
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I used to wear my disease; now I’m willing to wear my recovery. ~ Karen C., in Lifeline Denial works only so far. Finding people heavier than you may help your ego but not your body, not your mind, not […]
Continue reading »Happiness Not Necessary
During my years in OA, I’ve realized that the key to my peace, not necessarily my “happiness,” lies in turning my life over to my Higher Power one day at a time. When I do this, the burden of trying […]
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Within you lies a piece of God that instinctively knows what to do and how to be. ~ Wayne Dyer A piece of God in me. The idea clashes with the wisdom I’ve quoted that God is in us not […]
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