Below is what came to me early this morning as I prepared for our church’s annual meeting. The issue of being an affirming church and one of complete inclusion was on the agenda and I was asked to speak. Funny how after all these years, religion again presents itself as a lesson in self awareness … Continue Reading
Remember completing the “Cost of Addiction” exercise in treatment? It’s definitely a favorite of recovery group leaders. Where you snatch the worksheet and scribble down all the money you wasted over the years on addiction. Oh, and poor choices, wrong moves, erratic behavior. Basically any and everything responsible for your monetary disasters. I use to worry over it all, … Continue Reading
Raise your hand if you’ve never asked God to save you from drugs or alcohol. Right now. Raise it. Okay you’re excused. The rest of you, let’s give a huge sigh of annoyance and an intolerant eye roll for the Bible trumper, oops, my bad, thumper who points to their Bible and claims “it says right here that if you … Continue Reading
Someone needs to read this. I can’t recall how many days I let slip away when I was using. Or better put, how many times I used a rainy day as an excuse to wallow in self pity and guilt and drink, drink, drink. My intolerance was so out of control. Any slight environmental shift … Continue Reading
Today would have been day 15 but she relapsed. My new friend, the one who asked me to help her stay sober got 15 days in and started her morning off with a drink. When I got the text I knew it was going to be all bad. “I been up since 3 am and … Continue Reading
