When life pulls you down, obscures your path, bogs your footfalls, adds ruts to potholes, captures you in its tendrils… it’s easy to declare yourself powerless over your nemesis, that managing your life is a pipe dream, that any power […]
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You Know Them
A Scot can look at a stranger’s clothing and know the surname of the wearer and perhaps which branch of the clan, a more exact analysis of the ancestry of the wearer. My son gave his father a sweatshirt Can […]
Continue reading »A Thousand Steps
Distance looms, impossible chasms, between where we are and where we want to be. Between who we are and who we want to be. It’s too far, I’ll never reach it. I might as well stay, save, sound, albeit miserable, […]
Continue reading »Situations Which Used to Baffle Us
Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change. Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us. We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us. We will suddenly realize that God is doing […]
Continue reading »The Past
We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it. We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace. ~ The Big Book and A Study Guide of the 12 Steps (Kindle Locations 1503-1504). We […]
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