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Old 02-24-2012, 09:53 AM
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lillamy
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My unofficial Al-Anon sponsor talks about recovery programs this way:

If you due to a terminal disease was forced to amputate a leg, you could conceivably hobble around on one leg for the rest of your life and still get around on a pair of crutches and the one remaining leg.

But there are prosthetic legs available, and they are good, and some of them even allow you to run.

So why would you refuse a prosthetic leg based on the idea that "I already know how they work and I don't believe in the philosophy behind them" or "there are too many Christians involved in making prosthetic legs" or "people who need prosthetic legs are all a bunch of losers and I'm not like them."

Prosthetic legs can make your life better. And you owe it to yourself to try them. If it turns out they don't work for you, you haven't lost anything. If it turns out they do work for you, you can run through the fields again instead of hobbling on one leg and a pair of old crutches.
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