Maintaining Momentum

Life is like riding a bicycle. In order to keep your balance you must keep moving.            — Unknown It’s true in life . . . but even more true in recovery. Without forward momentum we quickly begin to wobble. Once that happens, if we don’t have outside assistance to come…

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Reclaiming Ourselves

“It’s never too late to be what you might have been.” — George Eliot (1818-1880) George Eliot was an English novelist in the 1800s. Interestingly enough, “George” was actually a woman—Mary Ann Evans—who believed that during the time she lived she had to use a male pen name to have her writing taken seriously. But,…

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Get Off the Slide!

The other day I had “one of those days.” It didn’t start out well and it seemed to get worse and worse as the day progressed. Things broke. Interruptions happened. Everything I tried to do took twice as long as it should have. Numerous times during the day it crossed my mind that I should…

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The Power of “I Can’t”

A short time ago I was re-reading Corrie ten Boom’s book, Tramp for the Lord. As Christians in Holland during World War II, Corrie and her family helped many Jews escape the Nazi holocaust. Eventually the ten Boom’s were arrested for these activities, her father killed, and she and her sister sent to a concentration…

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Finding the Answers

Has anyone in authority ever told you, “if you didn’t know, you should have asked”? Say what???? I’ve always thought that was such a bizarre statement. If we don’t know something, we generally aren’t even aware that there IS a question to ask. We aren’t being stupid or devious, we just didn’t know that we…

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