I’ve spent my life regretting the past, scheming, dreaming the future, what if’s. I don’t have yesterday, can’t grasp tomorrow, but choose to live, conscious, engaged, alive!
Continue reading »Alloy to Weapon
Out of this alloy of drink and speculation, I commenced to forge the weapon that one day would turn in its flight like a boomerang and all but cut me to ribbons. ~ Alcoholics Anonymous, page 2 Mixing the metallic […]
Continue reading »I Gave Up Knowing
I gave up having to know when OA showed me a better way to live. ~ For Today (Kindle Locations 1938-1939) When I’m in charge of the world, I must plan, order, structure… know! for the world revolves around me, […]
Continue reading »Surrender
Surrender is merely faith active: it is the way by which the desire of faith turns into determination, and it has to be made before the forces of grace can operate in any human life. ~ Courage to Change, Bill […]
Continue reading »Lacking Humility
If we are surprised, shocked, deflated, or discouraged when a defect returns, we lack humility. ~ The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Overeaters Anonymous (Kindle Location 740) Perfection wasn’t mine, isn’t now. Pride says when I surrender a trait […]
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