…willpower does nothing for my disease. Applying willpower to this compulsion is like applying an antibiotic to a viral infection. It will never have any effect. ~ Voices of Recovery (Kindle Locations 862-864). A leg cramp in the night, drilling through […]
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To Do Your Bidding
My Creator, I am now willing that You should have all of me, good and bad. I pray that You now remove from me every single defect of character which stands in the way of my usefulness to You and my fellows. […]
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By trying to control others through manipulation and direct force, we had hurt our loved ones. When we tried to control ourselves, we wound up demoralized. Even when we succeeded, it wasn’t enough to make us happy. ~ The Twelve Steps […]
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Oops! I’ve been human again. Lord, please take this burden. ~ Sharon D I mess up. Not so often as it was when I had to run the world, but I do. Things come from my mouth and I wonder […]
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Illusive all my life, they speak of it, urge it on me, disdain my lack of it, hound me to find it, beg me to get some. The puzzle is how! I tried and tried but getting all the colors […]
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