Hope

I learned about this tool from my Irish friend because she put up a link to an online version of it on her blog. I like tools like this, though I don’t often pick them up. Like much of what is available to me to grow spiritually. I seem to have been so desensitized to pain [...]

Caught in the Snide And in that dreadful place Those spooky empty pants and I Were standing face to face. I yelled for help. I screamed. I shrieked. I howled. I yowled. I cried. Oh! Save me from those pale green pants With nobody inside. -Dr. Seuss Isn’t that the essence of fear?  When we finally find [...]

Bullwinkle: “Hey Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!” Rocky: “Again? That trick never works.” Bullwinkle: “But this time for sure. Nothing up my sleeve.  Presto!” . . . “I’ve got to get another hat.” Rocky:  “And now, here’s something we hope you’ll really like!” Don’t ask [...]

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 [...]

Remember these? High school gym shorts from the 1980’s. Wow. At the time I thought they were pretty hot, at least on certain guys. You had to have pretty great legs to pul[ this look off, but there were always a couple of guys in gym class who fit the bill. I think the poly-knit [...]

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 [...]

“Learn to let your intuition—gut instinct—tell you when the food, the relationship, the job isn’t good for you (and conversely, when what you’re doing is just right).” -Oprah Winfrey I can’t.  I can’t do it.  I couldn’t do it so much that I ditched it and went to a noon meeting, and at that meeting (which was [...]

“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 [...]

Few indeed are the practicing alcoholics who have any idea how irrational they are, or seeing their irrationality, can bear to face it. Some will be willing to term themselves “problem drinkers,” but cannot endure the suggestion that they are in fact mentally ill. “Sanity” is defined as “soundness of mind.” Yet no alcoholic, [...]

“[H]e had been using crystal meth constantly for several weeks, and was suffering from severe paranoia as a result, when he visited MyOutSpirit.com and saw the photo contest slogan, “Remember who you want to be.” He says that was the trigger that helped him quit using and start getting his life back together.” - Ko Imani Here [...]