You're Welcome

God sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves. ~ Dwight L. Moody
You Pharisees and teachers of the Law of Moses are in for trouble! You’re nothing but show-offs. You lock people out of the kingdom of heaven. You won’t go in yourselves, and you keep others from going in. ~ Matthew 23:13-14 (Contemporary English Version)

Come full of doubts, uncertain there is a god
of any kind, in any religion. Come confident
in your blind faith in the strange proposition
that this universe originated in a cipher and
aimlessly rushes nowhere. Come believing
all is helpless, you can never have hope.
Come confident you understand, that you're smarter,
sharper than anybody else in the rooms,
but willing to listen, to try to understand.
You are welcome here. We offer you a program,
a path to serenity, to joy, to peace, to a life
beyond your wildest dreams.

But come to change us, to show us up, to scoff,
to prove us foolish...come full of yourself,
missionaries to the foolish sheep...
but with  a desire to stop eating compulsively,
and even you are welcome nonetheless.
You'll be miserable in the rooms, and we may be, too,
until you eventually listen, or you drift away
believing we're hopeless. Either way, Recovery will happen here.
You're welcome to stay and see.