What do you want to hear about?

I am an old guy! I am 75 and I am 47 years sober. I have been in Pentecost for 45 years. I have taught in halfway houses, sober houses, and churches. I have run and helped in a number of Christian recovery programs. I have done some prison ministry. I owned and run a...

Balance? What balance? What is that?

I(n this space I inhabit between Christian recovery and secular recovery I have bias and opinion. Anyone of whatever flavor knows balance is the hardest thing to master. I am caustic by nature. Not the best recovery nor is it the best fruit of the Spirit. So in the...

How do you train a dog?

There are jokes about herding cats. There are jokes about unmanageable things. Maybe we need to think about this in the context of the two groups I deal with on this blog. Really who can argue that faith folks are like a herd of cats? But in like manner no one in the...

What now?

Everybody has a guiding light! But that depends on who you are following. And that depends on how honest you are with yourself. For a normal recovery troop, he or she will say they are following their own recovery. Which goes with my recovery my way. Basically,...

Moving

A number of individual situations have set me to think of moving. As a kid, my family moved often. I was born at the start of the baby boom. in my childhood years, I lived with my family in Ohio, New York City, Long Island, Poultney, Vt, Windsor, VT, Manchester NH,...

New Digs

I am surrendering my business office and my service business. Its time has expired. We expire here after a time. My body is slower and my mind. A question for all is when do we expire and what does that mean. In the next posts, I will look at this thing and see how we...

Treasure in Strange

There should be agreement on the content of this blog post. But really there is a world of difference. Let us agree on some facts, a challenge these days. For recovery folks, diversity is a strength. Odd is not disqualifying from being in the know crowd. Weird is is...

Two Worlds, who are we, and who do they say we are?

I was having a conversation with one of my family. The topic turned out to be about their struggle with being friends with people who seemed to have lost their minds. So I want to talk about the spectrum of stuff under each tent. Recovery has an advantage. They can...

Diane Langberg

Here is link. (47) Complex Trauma: Understanding and Treatment – Diane Langberg – YouTube

Lost in the Forest?

A fact of life in the two Worlds of faith and recovery revolves around the place trauma has in both worlds. If you talk to experts or read the stuff experts post you will quickly find the place trauma has in the struggles of both faith and recovery. Go to the website...