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relativity, daily reflection March 30

Life is a choice.  Every thought, emotion, and action we take is linked to choice.  It is true that there is much beyond our control – but control and choice are not the same words.  In the very middle of the things we can’t control, we are still given choice. Denial and resistance, alcoholism and …

March 30, 2012 – 9:59 am | By Karin L Burke | Posted in reflections | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

Need, daily reflection March 29

We live, so often, in a kind of trance.  Alcoholism itself is a trance – a distortion of reality, a filtering lens, a weaving of denial and broken relationship with the world that covers our eyes like gauze.  It’s a world of pretend and half life.  It’s a feeling of frailty, mask wearing, separation.  Always, …

March 29, 2012 – 12:08 am | By Karin L Burke | Posted in reflections | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (0)