Broad daylight, rival gangs, outside families dining. Knives and motorcycles, blood and bandages. Does anyone remember the hurt, the resentment, being addressed this afternoon?
Continue reading »Dependence on God
Some of us have taken very hard knocks to learn this truth: Job or no job—wife or no wife—we simply do not stop drinking so long as we place dependence upon other people ahead of dependence on God. ~ Alcoholics Anonymous […]
Continue reading »Never Forbidding
To us, the Realm of Spirit is broad, roomy, all inclusive; never exclusive or forbidding to those who earnestly seek. It is open, we believe, to all men. ~Alcoholics Anonymous (Kindle Locations 738-739) God doesn’t wear disguises, but his biographers […]
Continue reading »Each Other
Perhaps it didn’t matter if they faced in different directions as long as they faced each other. ~ Diana Gabaldon Your program is not my program, your food plan differs from mine. My higher power would be vilified in the […]
Continue reading »Abstinence Is an Action
Abstinence in Overeaters Anonymous is the action of refraining from compulsive food behaviors while working towards or maintaining a healthy body weight. ~ Overeaters Anonymous Statement on Abstinence and Recovery Abstinence is an action. Abstinence is not wishing, not planning […]
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