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Reverence and power, daily reflection February 24

I haven’t got a god or a church, but I have been rattled and saved by powers I can’t name.  I can get caught up in worrying about religion.  Maybe because the powers are so inarticulate, so raw, so demanding; it’s hard to stay there very long without feeling a deep gravity and heart pinch,

The spiritual path is an unmarked dirt track, and humble. Daily reflection February 22

There is a gap between our inner world and reality.  In order to live, we begin to bridge that gap.  This makes the concept of step two – fix the within to change the without – feel and seem irrational.  We have problems with reality.  We have problems with our physical bodies, our relationships, our

Prayer, daily reflection february 21

Step two was -  is – a thing of mystery to me.  None of it made sense, and none of it felt like a thing I could trust. But it was a thing I intuitively knew I needed.  Belief in anything spiritual or religious had largely left me; ‘belief’ as in two and two makes

Divine Intervention, daily reflection February 20

If the proposition that a spiritual awakening can save an alcoholic’s life, substantiating a miracle, is hard to swallow, it might qualify as impossible to think an atheist can find the same miracle, without the interventionist god.  An atheist is a person who feels pain alone, without the solace of understanding or higher purpose.  An