Reply To: Wannabefree’s Friday night Blog…

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Hi Friends. I’m running a tiny bit late tonight.

“>That ‘Footprints’ thing is quite a leveller isn’t it?

What does it have to do with having OCD?  Well, OCD at it’s worst, completely takes over our lives doesn’t it? Every waking moment, Almost as if everybody else around us is more valuable to the world than we ourselves are.  In a care home, the slightest tummy upset would have an inquest, the member of staff literally bedevilled alive, shunned, shamed, almost to the point of attempting suicide…

I know, it happened to me more than once… They nearly cost me my very life… Fortunately, I managed to go off sick, then retire due to ill-health.

Incidentally, That care home went out of business, the staff team disintegrated, destroyed itself. I’m happily alive, and now in recovery with OCD. The medicines help me live an almost normal life now. We are on this journey…

Is that door locked? Well Yes, cos I’m so over-conscientious, I will have locked it anyway… I really don’t need to check it again, After all, the more I check, the stronger the urge to check becomes… That is my OCD.

In a supermarket, everything goes through the tills to pay. Is anything really ever all that clean?

It never has been… That’s right. It never has been… And yet… Any sign of illness, people would sue, the name of the establishment dragged through the media, their reputation totally ruined…

Wait a minute… When was the last time that actually happened?

So don’t worry about anything being perfectly clean either before, or after we have touched it…

So… Let’s leave it all to God, Whatever you conceive him to be.

Check out ‘Desiderata’, by Les Crane, on Youtube. It’s really good.

Until next Friday 18 August at about 6pm, right here.

Wannabe