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some tremendous support was received today from some folks typically outside the recovery realm. What a great honor it is to be a part of something much bigger than any one of us...

seven years have past since GOD guided me to start a sober living house for men in recovery. In those years, many men have been served by this blessing. After a troubling time, I sought GOD’s will for the house and before me was placed an angel. The house would now be for women. Our angel brings with her, experience, insight, wisdom, commitment and a love of GOD. I am grateful that our mission continues and that we can help recovering women in their transition out of alcoholic destruction to a life fulfilled...

for many of us emotional security is elusive as we live our lives riddled with fear. We will deny this fear at any cost. Many times we are in such denial that we do not even recognize it ourselves. We refuse to show any signs of weakness for we are sure that others will see us as less than what we want them to believe that we are. In sobriety we will come to see the insanity of such beliefs...

in the book of AA, Bill tells us that “through the alloy of drink and speculation, I commenced to forge the weapon that would one day turn in flight like a boomerang and come back and all but cut me to ribbons”. What I hear is that I created this life as I lived it day by day. It is time to see and live life from a sober perspective...

Transforming the Three Poisons: Greed, Hatred, and Delusion Greed, hatred, and delusion are known, for good reason, as the three poisons, the three unwholesome roots, and the three fires. These metaphors suggest how  dangerous inflictive thoughts and emotions can be if they are not  understood and transformed. Greed refers to our selfishness, misplaced desire, attachment, and  grasping for happiness and satisfaction outside of ourselves. Hatred refers to our anger, our aversion and repulsion toward unpleasant people,  circumstances, and even toward our own uncomfortable feelings. Delusion refers to our dullness, bewilderment, and misconception; our wrong views of reality. The poisons of greed, hatred, and delusion are a byproduct of ignorance, ignorance of our true  nature, the awakened heart of wisdom and compassion. Arising out of our ignorance, these poisonous states of mind then motivate non-virtuous and unskillful t...

in an instant, no answer comes. Paralyzed, he looked at her to say only, “I can feel you and I do love you”. He had no idea to the depth those words would  go or to the degree that he would come to understand them. The love he felt for her that day and the love that he feels for her to this day is in every part of his being and is like no other he has known. It is pure. It is wanting, hoping and praying that all that is good finds its way into her life. The love that he feels hopes that joy fills both her heart and soul and that any pain or adversity she might experience is as fleeting as GOD will have it. He gives his love freely to her without any expectation that she will love him, as he loves her. He knows that he is not her and that she is not him. He hopes that she will always know that he holds a special place in his heart for her without him ever having to say so, however, he does like saying "I love you". He hopes to be able to give a smile when she is u...