Food’s good for soothing is it not? It is ’til it’s not. Odd how it hoops from brio, vigor, high spirits, into sorrow, gloom… throbbing, stinging, robbing life of joy, stirring notions of nothing, cold, brooding icy loss. Food holds […]
Continue reading »Continue to Watch
Continue to watch for selfishness, dishonesty, resentment, and fear. When these crop up, we ask God at once to remove them. We discuss them with someone immediately and make amends quickly if we have harmed anyone. Then we resolutely turn […]
Continue reading »I Choose the Fireplug!
A speaker at an OA convention once shared that he would have been willing to sit naked on a fireplug and hand out leaflets if that was what his recovery required. Fortunately, our program requires no single act of daring. […]
Continue reading »Human Again
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 […]
Continue reading »Talking to God
God, I talk to you. Aloud, hopefully when I’m alone or praying in public. But I talk to you. And it’s not that you don’t talk to me. I remember when you did, August, 1969. Pretty clear… I knew, because […]
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