OTHERWISE, SELF-WILL ENDS & COMPULSION BEGINS –
“Like self-starvation
with food or compul-
sive debting or hoard-
ing with money, depriva-
tion with sex can make
one feel powerful and
defended against all
hurts.” (Sexual Anor-
exia, p. 1)
“How can an
act done under
compulsion have any
moral element in it, see-
ing that what is moral
is the free act of
an intelligent
being?”
– Auberon Herbert (1838 – 1906) United Kingdom parliamentarian/philosopher
What compulsions have you had to face, lately?
Can’t Stop – Red Hot Chili Peppers (4:38)
How to Stop Emotional Compulsive Eating (24:21)
I Am
by John Clare
I am—yet what I am none cares or knows;
My friends forsake me like a memory lost:
I am the self-consumer of my woes—
They rise and vanish in oblivious host,
Like shadows in love’s frenzied stifled throes
And yet I am, and live—like vapours tossed
Into the nothingness of scorn and noise,
Into the living sea of waking dreams,
Where there is neither sense of life or joys,
But the vast shipwreck of my life’s esteems;
Even the dearest that I loved the best
Are strange—nay, rather, stranger than the rest.
I long for scenes where man hath never trod
A place where woman never smiled or wept
There to abide with my Creator, God,
And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept,
Untroubling and untroubled where I lie
The grass below—above the vaulted sky.
Good morning everyone + Happy Tuesday. Each of us is a child of God. This is a very big deal. Walk in the sunshine of God’s love + your life will be full of glad promises. Blessings. BB