How many testimonies?

To my recovery brothers and sisters, I ask the question have you ever wanted to scream at a boring droning ‘drunkalog’? To my faith brothers and sisters, how many preachers have we heard that make you want to drink? As a mixed-blood kind of guy, I have...

Authority! In Both worlds, a hard pill to swallow!

No human easily submits to authority. We all deal with the concept reluctantly. We all want the final say about how life is handled. We can see in this life how lives play out. In secular recovery, drinking is death or living death. and following the program is life...

People are just people!

Beyond the label, there is the basic thing. VW and Lexas are both cars. An active drunk, an old-timer in AA., and an evangelist are all people. I think we get caught up in the labels and name tags we paste on our shirts. I got sober in AA and I go to meetings...

Respect is not a tribal thing!

I had a conversation today that underlined an itch I have been having for some time. Both Faith Troops and Recovery troops can be judgemental about each other. Which I understand. But when judgment morphs to disrespect and ignorance that torques my jaws. My friend who...

Vision? Where is the beef?

If there is a continuum from uber giddy positive to borderline negative I end up on the somber side. I guess I am a partly sunny guy. I say that to ask where is the positive payoff for recovery or faith? For an AA or NA person following the path leads to life second...