I’m not doing it FOR someone else, really. But putting your own oxygen mask on first is key, as is helping someone else. ~ Maureen Gibbons I’m spent my life rescuing, fixing, seeing to. I’d always see to your needs […]
Continue reading »Usefully Whole
A.A.’s Twelve Steps are a group of principles, spiritual in their nature, which, if practiced as a way of life, can expel the obsession to drink and enable the sufferer to become happily and usefully whole. ~ Twelve Steps and […]
Continue reading »Worthiness
We mistake busyness for worthiness, perhaps. Let’s remember we are always worthy in God’s eyes. It’s the ego that labels us unworthy. ~ Karen Casey Like the lepers of old banned from society, forbidden to touch, required to proclaim “Unclean, […]
Continue reading »Feeling Feelings
I no longer need to be anesthetized; I can stand still and feel my feelings. ~ For Today (Kindle Locations 137-138). Boredom requires no concoction featuring sugar, flour, nuts. Fear doesn’t need apple fritters to build up courage, seem confident. […]
Continue reading »Living in Ugly
We talked of intolerance, while we were intolerant ourselves. We missed the reality and the beauty of the forest because we were diverted by the ugliness of some its trees. We never gave the spiritual side of life a fair […]
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