A common mistake we make is that we look for God in places where we ourselves wish to find him, yet even in the physical reality this is a complete failure. For example, if you lost your car keys, you […]
Continue reading »Number 1,600
This entry is the 1600th daily entry for Recovery Daily Dose. I decided to go through the four-plus years of poetry prompts (from literature and from people talking, from signage, from the radio, just…from) and just weave some of them […]
Continue reading »The Spiritual Foundation
12. Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all these Traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities. ~ OA 12th Tradition Refusing to be identified by surname or photography? The spiritual foundation of the Traditions? Is that what “anonymity” […]
Continue reading »The Non-Swingers
I watch those who were zapped abstinent and have kept it for years. I look at them askance, sometimes, expecting them to have swing like a pendulum back to old patterns, to the eating insanity that I experience all too […]
Continue reading »Patience and Diligence
Patience and diligence, like faith, remove mountains.~ William Penn How do you decide to have faith? Is it not a gift? How do you ask for it? Well, that’s not really the question, is it? How do you decide to […]
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