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, …
Tag Archives: higher power
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 …








