“When the individual accepts, on an unconscious level, the reality of not being able to handle compulsive overeating, there is no residual battle.” ~ Overeaters Anonymous, Second Edition. I surrender. I put down my weapons — fear, rationalization, denial, rebellion. […]
Continue reading »Look Fear in the Face
If I did not look fear in the face, I would not know what it was made of; and if I did not know my fears, I would not feel them. Compulsive overeating did an admirable job of helping me […]
Continue reading »Without Knowing
Telling God what to do — even if in the form of requests, prayers — controls nothing. God takes no orders from me. Nor does life make sense, at least sometimes. Important times. God told Job it was none of […]
Continue reading »To Speak for God
Dear Lord of life, my hope, my joy — I see your path for me. You ask that I be your envoy To set your people free. You call for me to teach and lead The high, the low, the […]
Continue reading »Dose a Day
I started this blog, a poem a day, flung out to the world, words of faith, of hope, of recovery… I started it as a tool not of serenity, of surrender but to market, to hype. Day after day, seven […]
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