We can be alone at perfect peace and ease. ~ Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition (Kindle Location 1168) Alone. Tolerable with something to do… even if it’s no longer food, creating the fog. Alone with obsessions…computer games, knitting, reading, research, cleaning, […]
Continue reading »Unreachable
Why should I stare at the night sky, ponder the distances, enjoy the beauty, wonder about fundamental questions of life here, of life there, of living? Why should I try for recovery, for turning everything over to God or Power […]
Continue reading »Set It Aside
Dear God, please help me set aside everything I think I know so I may have an open mind and a new experience. Please help me see the Truth. Amen. ~ one version of The Set Aside Prayer I know […]
Continue reading »Looking for Life
Seeking, searching, uncovering, exploring, dissatisfied still. Yearning, restless, craving, needing, wanting still. Discontent, heart ache, rootless, thwarted, humiliated. Humble, sought for, found, completed, standing in illumination.
Continue reading »Start Over
This was when I learned that you have to give up your life as you know it to get a new one: that sometimes you need to let go of everything you’re clinging to and start over, whether because you’ve […]
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