Recovery. Sobriety. Living Wise.
To read this post in its optimal format, click the link above, or click here. I’ve consumed hundreds of books on a wide range of topics including history, philosophy, religion, politics and government. I have studied the lives of many of the significant leaders of the past three hundred years. Plus, I worked in Washington DC for ten years and lived half my life in … Continue reading The Struggle of Being Moral
To read today’s post and hear the recording, please go to the Just A Thought website. Please click here. I would like to thank my cousin Sue Owner for her permission to share her remarkable story — a story well worth telling on the amazing power of forgiveness. “Fools,” said I, “You do not know – Silence like a cancer grows. Hear my words that I might … Continue reading A Lesson in Forgiveness
To read this post in its optimal format, click the link above, or click here. “Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” ~ C.S. Lewis A parent’s relationship to pain cannot help but be passed on to their children. Like many … Continue reading Thoughts on Pain
To read today’s post in its optimal format please go to the Just A Thought website. Please click here. We gain knowledge of ourselves and the world in two ways: from science and from art. We learn from reason, and from the heart. Both are necessary if we are to develop to our fullest potential, as individuals and as a community. The renowned Harvard biologist … Continue reading Head and Heart (by Joe)