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Restorative Sanity, daily reflection Feburary 2

I didn’t think I was crazy. I just thought I drank too much.  Until, in those last weeks, I thought I’d honestly lost my mind.  I became terribly unable to control myself.  Not, simply, how much I drank once I started drinking, but everything.  I knew what I wanted, what I meant, what and why

Apology as Heaven. September 11.

There is an invisible world out there, and we are living in it. If we hurt, if we know loneliness, if we feel shame or alienation or abandonment in our heart, we’ve simply forgotten the invisible, or started to say it isn’t true because it isn’t solid.  Apology shocks us out of our empirical, ego

Storm. prayer, July 30.

Faith is nothing like what I’d been taught.  All of those things – dogma and promises that seem irrelevant – are easy to dismiss.  It isn’t easy to dismiss faith.  Nor is it easy to have. It’s an experience of opening, as if the ribcage formed a door. There is a direct ratio between what