i am glad Mother’s day is past. It is a day that is to be endured not celebrated. I see moms fussing over their kids and seems foreign to me I can not connect with it. I could never say my mom abandoned me because that would imply I was connected with her at one … More Mother’s Day
FEAR The last few days I have been having a consistent and deeply rooted sense of fear. The fear is not attached to any specific issue.The problem with it being a floating fear is that then it attaches to anything I happen to think about. If I am thinking about money it attaches to money … More FEAR. False Evidence Appearing Real
I heard about a wise bumper sticker a few days ago. Here is what it said: “Don’t Believe Everything You Think” This bumper sticker is helping me. These are difficult days for me. I feel I have suffered a great loss. I am working my way through the situation in a way that is satisfactory … More Thoughts About Thinking
A friend of mine once advised me not to let good things that are moving past me in the river just go by me. I need to grab a stick and pull them out the stream so I can hang on to them. These are ideas I have pulled out of the stream over my … More My Program Reminders 2
A key idea in my recovery is the idea of learning and doing God’s will. A number of times when a asked for a knowledge of God’s will and I did not think I had found God’s will only to find out later from subsequent experience that the decision I had made worked well. As … More God’s Will
Yesterday I was speaking to some very close friends. They asked me how I understood my own personality. I said “I am a teacher. Everything I have ever wanted to get done I tried to get it done as a teacher”. When I was CEO of Union Rescue Mission at Union Rescue Mission I led … More The Teacher I Am
I am not in charge of the time thing anymore. Sometimes, it is like am so deeply unsettled, that I find myself looking for a hook upon which I can hang my anxiety. I am not over-burdened or under-burdened. I am unburdened. The 12 Steps are the heart and soul of my program. The meetings, … More Program
