Applying willpower to this compulsion is like applying an antibiotic to a viral infection. It will never have any effect. ~ Voices of Recovery (Kindle Locations 862-863). They call the other people “normies” for a reason. They’ve got this illusive “willpower” […]
Continue reading »Temptation
Temptation is a weather gauge, showing prevailing winds, predicting the future by the present, static, innocuous, but meaningful. The bowl of candy leaving Rotary most Fridays sits there. I see it, rejoice that it doesn’t call my name. Until it […]
Continue reading »A Modicum of Faith
Newborn as Shiloh roiled, Sam modeled wisdom, grace — an unpretentious man. They trekked to Arkansas then on, set up a church and scattered seed; a place in Texas dawned a home, a farm from faith and brawn. Sam served and […]
Continue reading »Hide and Seek with God
Can your mind’s eye watch God giggle? Have you ever been the adult in the room so long you want to shatter the illusion? Do you like to laugh? Does God? Is your god so Old Testament he never relaxes, […]
Continue reading »Boiled as an Owl
The old alcoholics, crafting their book to carry the message, spun pictures of words — the goose hung high, an alcoholic in his cups, boiled as an owl… but the words made sense for they spoke the language, shared the […]
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