She never even said her name, came in, nodded yes, her first time, started sobbing before the serenity prayer when Jackie told Sandra she’d made the week, no drive-through Blizzards, no apple fritters, just three sane meals a day. Sandra […]
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Hidden No Longer
Present from creation,the essence of life,glory, love, grace hiddenthrough millenniums,glimpsed in lives, hinted in peace,recognized by few.Present in flesh a few years,hidden in crowds, obscured by ordinary,blending with normal,recognized by those wanting to see.Raised in glory, recognized, honored,revered, put on […]
Continue reading »Before My Time
I look around the rooms, see people here decades, see youngsters, teens. At sixty-five, five years here, I could feel cheated, the secret not passed my way. But I know I had to be readied, prepared, that for me it […]
Continue reading »The Program Packaged
One hundred sixty-four pages and eleven personal stories, one big book – made big with cheap paper, large type, sent out into the world, “one man with this book in your hand” and the belief it contains all you will […]
Continue reading »100% God
…we had to fearlessly face the proposition that either God is everything or else He is nothing. God either is, or He isn’t. What was our choice to be? (Alcoholics Anonymous, page 53) Up or down, all or nothing, God […]
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