3rd Step

I don’t normally duplicate work I produce elsewhere, but there are only so many ways you can say the same thing.  In this case, it’s something I need to say in every channel I write in. Just like with drugs and alcohol, it seems to be a natural part of my character that until I have [...]

I wrote a post over at the Second Road the other day about the hurdles we face in finding the Higher Power of 12 step programs. The idea for the post came from a conversation I had with a friend a few nights ago wherein he told me that the only ‘God’ he was willing [...]

Tommy: Have you accepted Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Saviour? Hedwig: No, but I… I love his work. John Cameron Mitchell, Hedwig and the Angry Inch I don’t want to make this about religion because it isn’t about religion. It’s about the same thing everything else here is about. Me. It’s what it [...]

“School and work are fine - and that is what we do between meetings” Karl M., Covina, CA “Why do we have to listen to the same people tell the same stories at every meeting?”  Norman leaned over and asked me that at a meeting last night.  He’s right, of course.  We hear the same people share [...]

“Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure; having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his.” Timothy 2;19 If the meeting I was at last night was the first AA meeting I had ever been to, I am quite sure I would have ran out the back door and never returned. Perhaps I should lower my [...]

There is a light at the end of the tunnel. The light is not an illusion. The tunnel is. -unknown I noticed this sign above the door of a meeting I occasionally go to and it just struck me. It seemed profound enough, but it wasn’t till I woke up this morning and read Sweet Pea’s post where [...]

“We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.” -Joseph Campbell I love this picture. I love it on several different levels. It just this second occurred to me, for example, that I’ve never seen any Benedictines on a roller coaster. There [...]

This post was originally published Feb. 13, 2008 and was taken down pending adjudication of another case. Now that has been done and I am restoring the post. “No more essential duty of government exists than the protection of the lives of its people. Fail in this, and we fail in everything.” Francis T. Murphy I am, [...]

“I wonder what it would be like if I really lived like I knew everything was going to be all right. Or if I really lived like I knew at all times I was loved and am love. Or if I really lived like I knew that I had access [...]

“Every beginning is an ending and every ending a beginning; a turning point. They are passages through which, if we are willing, we may pass into a new and better life.” - Chris M. Some turning points are big, obviously, like the one I came to a year ago when I could not go on. [...]