Recovery. Sobriety. Living Wise.
“Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.”~ Orson Scott Card Do you ever wonder why children have trouble controlling their tongues, or say such cruel and insensitive things to other children? Or how difficult it is to bring your own tongue under control? These are weighty questions because the unbridled tongue accounts for much collective misery. I shudder at … Continue reading Turning Wine into Water
For everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, a time to pluck up what is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time … Continue reading The Turning of a Season
“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.” – Emma Lazarus I’ve been sickened by how fractured my country of America has become. The tone of nation has turned ugly; a bunker mentality seems to be tearing us apart. As I thought about this recently, I realized I had learned some valuable lessons from Rogers Park … Continue reading Ode to Rogers Park
“There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless”~ Wilson Misner Maybe it’s because these restless skeletons of ours really want to dance. For a long time, I believed that skeletons were passed on from one generation to the next as an unwanted family inheritance. The less one spoke of a skeleton the better, and if one did, one only did so … Continue reading What I Found in My Closet