I have always had a cautious relationship wit the term Recovery. In the beginning of my journey in sobriety I was all about not drinking a moment at a time. A moment was all I had and all I could handle. I clung to right now. I needed to be distracted from the...
If you go to a foreign country you hear different languages. In both faith and recovery you are at the junction of completely different languages. AA talks one way, NA the same, but different. CR is really different. Recovery reminds me of the Star Wars bar room...
This whole new thing is a walk in the dark. The image of a lamp unto our feet is a bible image. And life is like that. In recovery, we learn to trust the program. In Faith, we learn to trust something more than me. In Jesus, we learn to trust the unseen Master. IN the...
If I look at folks in Recovery who are they? Recovery is a wildly diverse crew. One may be a male or female of any age who struggles with the snare of progressing chemical addiction. I could write a book on the many faces of ever strangling snare of addiction. There...
In my journeys in recovery and in the church I could not put my finger on a bent and a bias I found in all the places I went. I couldn’t conceive of bias in the places I depended on for my life. So I stayed in denial of the differences. As an example in AA after...
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