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Sep.23.2012
Emmett Fox, one of the most influential New Thought writers of the 20th century once said,
“If you can raise your consciousness about the limitations of the physical plane in connection with the matter that troubles you then the conditions on that plane will change, and in some utterly unforeseen...
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Sep.15.2012
My First Book Signing
Many and diverse reasons illustrate why people who have been sexually abused do not get into treatment. Here are a few.
· I’ve learned to live with my trauma.
· Since my abuser was a family...
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Sep.07.2012
September 7
THE FRUIT BOWL
Meetings are living and precious fruit. I must squeeze every drop from them, even the lemons. I am privileged to be among the succulent growth and pungent fragrance of determined hearts and minds. The infusion of strength, the...
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Aug.29.2012
August 29
SATISFACTION
Satisfaction is like a marble in my pocket. Formed when correctness was still red hot and my sponsor rolled my mind until I was whole. I sigh and square my shoulders. I know I am up to any task. I am skilled with my...
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Aug.27.2012
August 27
THE DREAMER
“What about the dreamer?”
“What about her?” responds my sponsor. “You ask me about her like I was the one who pushed her off the cliff.”
“Are you saying I pushed her?” I questioned my sponsor.
“Yes, that is just what I am saying. Do you need...
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Aug.20.2012
August 20
THE SEDUCTION OF SOBRIETY
I was seduced away from my duties as an alcoholic by the promise of sobriety. Allegiance to my disease was sidelined. Alluring stability and beguiling integrity curried favor with my desperate heart, pulling me from...
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Aug.18.2012
Today was my monthly Lamplighter meeting. No one showed up. I waited twenty minutes and then left, feeling once again, discouraged. I stopped on the way home and dropped some brochures off at the Alano Club in hopes that someone there needs the help and will show up at our next meeting. I’ve...
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Aug.15.2012
August 15
THINGS WHICH ARE THICKER THAN WATER
“Pudding, mud, ice cream, cement, sauce, paint, sap, drool, gravy, wood.”
“What is that?" I ask my sponsor.
“A list of things thicker than water. There are so many; why do people get so hung up on blood?” ...
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Aug.13.2012
August 13
HOW RED IS RED
I check my color and contrast; I paint the setting sun. Add a bit of yellow and fill to the edge burgeoning poppies. Add more blue and paint the blood which pools around my mind, the equalizer of all my mental conversations. Too...
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Aug.06.2012
August 6
ALICE
Because I even wore out my welcome at the Mad Hatter’s house, I can sit on my hands at my sponsor's table and listen, listen, listen. If I had been able to make a place for myself with the looking-glass folk, I could never have let myself lose my...
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