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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Because
This may be a fine program but it’s not going to work for me, I know since I’ve tried everything, most of them multiple times… like Weight Watchers, Adkins diet, those candies, do you remember, Aids before that meant something […]
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In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger — something better, […]
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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, […]
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“Lord, make me a channel of thy peace — that where there is hatred, I may bring love,,,.”~ St. Fransis, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions Alcoholic Anonymous, page 99 How can i channel God’s peace? Channel as a verb: to form, cut, […]
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