What is recovery? In some circles, recovery is total healing without side effects. In AA continued sobriety offers possible benefits. They even say follow us and you will have a life second to none. In faith circles, the implication is total healing and not doubting....

I have been on this recovery walk for a long time. I got sober in 1974 and got saved in 1976. In that time I have made mistakes and had mistakes made on me. I talk about the two worlds and how they are different and the same. In a strange way, I found AA more...

How do the relationships between a person and their God differ in different recovery worlds? Actually, for Faith people, you would think they would be similar. In practice, people of faith are all over the place. They go from mystic eastern spirit guide stuff to ultra...

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 heard preachers...

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...

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...

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...

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...

As I have written these blogs the last month or so I have lost my focus. Or rather I realize I never had a focus. I think this goes back to before the sober house. It goes back to before CR. It goes back to a girl who was in AA. I was sober for a couple of years. My...

One thing is the same between Recovery and Faith troops. We both have our talkers and our doers. In recovery circles, everyone knows the people who talk good-sounding recovery but walk rubbish. And the Faith folks know the ones whose walk does not match their talk. We...