Don’t run from a challenge. Instead run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet. ~ Nadia Comaneci When fear tells you to run that’s fine, but the direction is open to […]
Continue reading »The Newcomer
She came in today, first meeting, December 17th. Tough time, a week before Christmas Eve. Who starts Overeaters Anonymous then?? Well, I did. Seven years ago. The best decision I ever made. The whole world starts a diet fifteen days […]
Continue reading »“No” Is a Complete Sentence
I make my own decisions, and explanations, justifications, apologies are seldom needed. I have the right to choose, and when I do, a simple yes or no meets all criteria. I have nothing to explain, no softening the blow, to […]
Continue reading »Happy, Joyous and Free
We are sure God wants us to be happy, joyous, and free. We cannot subscribe to the belief that this life is a vale of tears, though it once was just that for many of us. But it is clear […]
Continue reading »No Peace on Earth
And in despair I bowed my head; “There is no peace on earth,” I said; “For hate is strong, And mocks the song Of peace on earth, good-will to men!” (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) Peace belongs to us. Lack of peace […]
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