Circles...

This was intended to be for my Life Signs series.

3. Addictions.
If you keep doing what you've been doing, you will keep getting what you've been getting.

I recently read this quote from Brian McLaren,
For many people, economic recovery means "getting back to where we were a few months or years ago." That means recovering our consumptive, greedy, unrestrained, undisciplined, irresponsible, and ecologically and socially unsustainable way of life.

I'd like to suggest another kind of recovery... drawing from the world of addiction. When an addict gets into recovery, he doesn't want to go back and recover the "high" he had before, or even to recover the conditions he had before he began using drugs and alcohol. Instead, he wants to move forward to a new way of life - a wiser way of life that takes into account his experience of addiction. He realizes that his addiction to drugs was a symptom of other deeper issues and diseases in his life ... unresolved pain or anger, the need to anesthetize painful emotions, lack of creativity in finding ways to feel happy and alive, unaddressed relational and spiritual deficits, lack of self-awareness, and so on.

I don't agree with everything he says, but the rest of it is here.

However, as I thought about these circles... it kind sums up my last few days. I do feel like I'm going round in circles...
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Life signs 1: wait
Life signs 2: pay here