May 04, 2023 – A

There is nothing 
we cannot deny.

Denial keeps us where we are. 
If it weren't for denial,
where might we be?

Denial is a superpower in a negative sense.

Recovering alcoholics know about
the power of denial--
and the power of looking denial in the eye,
facing the truth of
the legitimate pain of life,
and doing what must be done
in the way of acceptance and adaptation,
working to put ourselves in right relationship
with the truth of how things are,
and the truth of how we wish things were,
and the work it is going to take
to accommodate ourselves to the reality
of the discrepancy between what we want
and what's what--
and get up and do what needs to be done
every day.

Anyway!
Nevertheless!
Even so!

Every day!

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