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From: mikes@lakesys.lakesys.com (Mike Shawaluk)
Newsgroups: alt.recovery
Subject: For Today
Message-ID: <1581@lakesys.lakesys.com>
Date: 18 Jan 90 13:04:42 GMT
Reply-To: mikes@lakesys.UUCP (Mike Shawaluk)
Organization: Lake Systems - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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From "For Today", a daily meditation book from Overeaters Anonymous, Inc.
--
January 18

	The best way out is always through.
					Robert Frost


I used to take the long way around, avoiding problems, escaping feelings.  In
OA I heard it called the easier, softer way.  But is my way really easier?
No!  It is the hard and painful, life-of-hell way.

I am grateful for the awareness of old patterns.  Today I count on God's help
to remove those faults I expose when I take the honest way out of my
difficulties.


FOR TODAY:  Practice of steps four through nine prepares me for facing rather
than trying to escape my problems.
-- 
   - Mike Shawaluk             
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