On the whole, my life is arcing toward God. ~ Miranda It’s not a straight line…it’s an arc. But it goes up. Sometimes, always? Not obviously perhaps, when it’s a line flat on a page. But rainbows are arcs and lift […]
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We start with Step One. Our lives are unmanageable. By that we mean we’re miserable, perhaps suicidal, depressed as heck, at the end of our rope. We work the rest of the steps and find it so much better, a […]
Continue reading »Well Intentioned
…about many well-intentioned Christians and clergy. Their religion has never touched them or healed them at the unconscious level where all of the real motivation, hurts, unforgiveness, anger, wounds, and illusions are stored, hiding—and often fully operative. They never went […]
Continue reading »The Life Cycle of Recovery
Decades ago a wise woman said, “Too many people are born again and again but never grow up.” Starting over. Honorable. Essential so often. We eternally return to the First Step. Yet if it’s the same place, the same unmanageable […]
Continue reading »Building Foundations
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. ~ Henry David Thoreau Realism. It’s not realistic to build castles in the air […]
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