Get What you need and what you want!

When things get crazy you have to trust and believe you get what you need not what you want. Whether in faith or recovery, you have to have faith. What is faith? The Bible says faith is the assurance of things hoped for and the conviction of things unseen. What are...

Balls and Strikes! Out of the Game!

In any sport, there come times when the player is taken from the game. The rules are not as clear-cut in the game of recovery and faith. In both arenas, there are no rules that can be not evenly enforced. So people get hurt and are carted off the field. in my...

Balls and Strikes the final Call

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-z29wg-13591f4 There is the term Codependency.  In this situation, our best compassion turns into a mess. In the podcast, I talk about the role of sloppy compassion in recovery and...

Balls and Strikes! Capital Offence!

You can not understand the junction of faith and recovery without coming to grips with the deep-seated bias of many members of each group. I got sober in the seventies. I came to Jesus in the born-again sense in the seventies. My Dad was a pastor of the conservative...

Balls and Strikes

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-m8a2q-13472f7 At the junction of faith and Recovery, the hardest thing is the act of choosing your Truth and dealing with the consequences of that choice.  Everything at this nexus of faith and recovery is consequential.  But...