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Evening Walk
A teeny-tiny orb of enormous sunshine sets behind the trees way off in the distance, so far, far away, yet still its glow so warm and comforting. The crickets – hundreds of them, maybe thousands – my ears can’t tell the difference – line the path I walk with their resounding silence, soothing away the…
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Las Vegas
The tears won’t even fall anymore… The ugliness of this world has turned them into pockets of sand and dust, scratching the backs of eyes irritating the edges of hearts bringing no relief. The tears won’t even fall anymore… They know they cannot wash away the disease that has infected these lands, like a parasite…
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Barnacles
Dear God: I feel the barnacles of yesterday’s journey clinging half-heartedly to the depths of my soul. They haven’t slowed me down for such a long time that I struggle so with their presence today. They feel clingy, prickly, and determined. I can sense the overwhelming rottenness of their insides rising up to infiltrate my…
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When Will We See?
In what way could our hearts be united? In what circumstance would we each grab hold of our neighbor’s hand and walk toward freedom? In what light may we find the answer to this unrest that surrounds every conversation, every news report, every opinion? In what hour will we wake from the judgment and criticism,…
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The Dawning
Soft shades of yellow, orange, and red melt into the blue-gray sky outside my window… …graceful kitty paws soak into the carpet beneath my chair… …the tiny flame of a plain white tea-light candle glows…flows…glows… …good morning, my great Love and Light …how I have longed all night to wake to Your Presence …this day,…
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Pleading Prayer
Dear God: I once saw a prayer that stated, “Please keep your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth.” This is so appropriate for me today. I need Your comfort, Your protection, Your enveloping Love. I need You to keep me close to You, tightly close. I can feel myself straying, wanting…
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Free to Choose
Thank you, fallen heroes our friends cousins neighbors dads and moms brothers and sisters sons and daughters. Thank you, for giving your life for the freedom to speak to live to love to praise. Thank you, for facing our enemies, standing together with might, falling together with grace. Thank you, fallen heroes for putting it…
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Principles Before Personalities
“Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.” – Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, pg. 184 Like all the traditions of the Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) program, Tradition 12, stated above, is practically unchanged and used in every single 12-Step fellowship in existence today. It is, without…
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The Release
The tiny splash of pastel colors like a splotch of a rainbow on one cotton-ball-sized cloud floats over us as the tears form in her eyes… one falls others threaten as the loss, the emptiness breathes through to reality shows up on the surface from the depths of secret hiding spaces within, way below the…
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Start Now
“The scariest moment is always just before you start.” – Stephen King What is it that you are waiting to do? Why are you waiting? Are you afraid? Are you afraid you will fail? Are you afraid you will do so well at it that all the world will come to expect that you will…
Jessica L. Morris
The seeking is everything…
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