Assumptions run rampant,not the way I’m thinking, though —not from them about me.I sit among a few dozen alcoholics,most if not all clean and sober,some for decades. But those that aren’t,or are but can’t follow guidance on silence,on anonymity… what […]
Continue reading »Standing on Promises?
I grew up singing – or playing accompaniment to – the old hymn “Standing on the Promises.” Youthful, I believed I stood there, secure in the faith, in the promises, in belief. Knocked down by life, despairing grabbing hold again […]
Continue reading »Potent Impotence
1. We admitted we were powerless over food — that our lives had become unmanageable.2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. (Alcoholics Anonymous, page 59) Powerless: impotent.Potent: sane, useful, empowered.Impotence yells, mad […]
Continue reading »Shell, Rebel, Love
In the shell stage, one does what one should do; in the rebel stage, what one should not do; and in the love stage, what one wants to do. Many times behavior in the love stage will be similar to behavior […]
Continue reading »Enough Dying Today
Just existing makes dying look easy.But maybe tomorrow. I’ve done enough dying today. (The Gatlin Brothers) I’ve died enough for a lifetime,have hurt, agonized, cried.I’ve murdered my self,on a people-pleasing altar,dived head-first from a clifffor somebody nodded that way. I’ve […]
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