We discover that we do receive guidance for our lives to just about the extent that we stop making demands upon God to give it to us on order and on our terms. ~ Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, Alcoholics […]
Continue reading »By Name
God always calls everybody by their name. ~ Sister Bea M A politician singled me out picked me from a throng gathered in a coliseum weeks after we’d met, called to me, knew me, went back to bring his wife […]
Continue reading »What’s there to Lose?
There is nothing to lose in seeking the God of my understanding except my false pride, my food obsession, my fat and all the life-destroying illusions that this illness breeds. ~ For Today (Kindle Locations 323-324) What would I give […]
Continue reading »Giving Eating Away
My work is to give my eating to Him each day. ~ Voices of Recovery (Kindle Location 404) I’d have told you I could manage everything, that I needed nothing, that God and people weren’t listening. I can manage nothing, […]
Continue reading »Jump In
When your pants are on fire and you’re standing by a river don’t ask why, just jump in. ~ Kristen (paraphrase) Analysis has been my mainstay but has become my stake, the stick that holds me fast — but to […]
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