Fear. Trepidation. Anxiety. Oh, wouldn’t it be easier to play stupid computer games or even to clean the house and make hubby happy! But I’m sitting here waiting for the computer to reboot so I can walk a tightrope suspended way […]
Continue reading »Shame Guides
God employs our shame to guide His children toward His throne. ~ Jo Helen Cox, God Makes Us Holy Shame. A painful feeling of humiliation or distress caused by the consciousness of wrong or foolish behavior. Would that I could lose shame, banish […]
Continue reading »The Seventh Tradition
7. Every OA group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions. Every group, self-supporting to avoid issues outside the scope. So, pass the basket with a recommended three dollars contribution. But what of those who have plenty and put […]
Continue reading »We Know the Rules
We are compulsive eaters. We have been for a while and so we’ve learned the diets, the tricks, the quick fixes, the mind games, the wardrobe gimmicks. We’ve joined programs, paid great sums, clipped plans from magazines, tried them, succeeded […]
Continue reading »Now, Forever
Why anguish over days past or worry over those to come? When we pigeonhole bits of time with such words and concepts we bedeck them with feelings of despair or of anxiety, quailing at presumed or anticipated failure but when […]
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