Posted in 12 Step Program, Acceptance, God, Grace, Higher Power, Miracle of recovery, Prayer, addicts, alcholics, freedom, gratitude, love, poetry, recovery, spiritual renewal, spirtual awakening, surrender, tagged 12 Step Program, 12 step program poetry, addictions, alcohol, drugs, God, gratitude, recovery on May 10, 2008 | No Comments »
The Pit
Although the seasons
Come and go,
I pray that my sobriety
Will constantly grow.
For years on end
I’ve tried to quit,
To pull myself out
Of that deep, dark pit.
It was years ago
When I fell into the trap,
It’s filled with alcohol,
Drugs and crap.
The walls are soaked
With suffering and pain,
The guilt and remorse
Eat away at my brain.
I pulled myself [...]
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Posted in gratitude, joy, laughter, living in the moment, love, love of life, memories, poetry, smile, tagged Europe, favorite foods, gratitude, poetry, travel on May 10, 2008 | No Comments »
“When the sun in the morning
Peaks over the hill
I wake up with the lilacs
On Mocking Bird Hill
Trah laa lah tweedly dee dee
It gives me a thrill
To wake up in the morning
On Mocking Bird Hill”
Oh what rejoicing to hear that old song
I remember how wonderful it was to sing along.
I was just a young [...]
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Posted in 12 Step Program, Higher Power, gratitude, love, poetry, recovery, tagged 12 Step Program, 12 step program guest speaker, 12 step program poetry, Higher Power, recovery, women on May 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
She shared her story.
You could see it was true.
She talked of pain and hardship.
She spoke of recovery
How she made it through.
(Just like me and you.)
She shared from her heart.
She told it with all her love.
She told it like a steel fist
Wrapped in a velvet glove.
Her words gripped my heart.
Her words made me laugh.
Her [...]
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Beware of outbreaks of Laughter.
Beware of moments of Joy.
Guard against unreasonable contentment.
Be on the look out for a outbreaks of Gratitude.
These are definite signs of recovery.
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Posted in 12 Step Program, Acceptance, Higher Power, addicts, alcholics, freedom, gratitude, insanity, joy, laughter, living in the moment, love, poetry, recovery, tagged 12 Step Poetry, addiction, discovery, joy, Laughter in recovery, poetry on May 7, 2008 | No Comments »
Have you ever
Heard the laughter
Of the folks
Who made it “Home”?
The ones who walked
Wondered and waited
Just to see a smile.
Recovery is a joyous gift
That brightens up the Soul.
The laughter returns as we share
Our Journey to the things that made us whole.
Thanks for the song of laughter
That gives laughter to my night.
Thanks for the smile
That makes it [...]
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Posted in 12 Step Program, Family, God, Grace, Higher Power, Light and Sound of God, Miracle of recovery, Prayer, Service, Spiritual, Sunlight of the Spirit, beauty, celebration of life, gratitude, joy, laughter, love, poetry, smile, spiritual renewal, spirtual awakening, tagged 12 Step Poetry, 12 Step Program, gratitude, Light and Sound of God, love, poetry, Spring, Sunlight of the Spirit on May 4, 2008 | No Comments »
It is a Sunshine Sunny Sunday
The storm has passed for now.
The green of spring is ‘doing its thing’
As on my knees I bow.
Winter’s pains no longer near
The opening leaves do now appear.
The world is again a wondrous place.
The Sunlight of the Spirit
Conveys God’s Grace.
The Light and Sound
Are dancing in a sacred rhyme
The [...]
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Posted in Acceptance, Detachment, Family, Higher Power, commitment, gratitude, love, poetry, spirtual awakening, surrender, tagged 12 Step Program, dedication, living in the moment, love, poetry, surrender on April 29, 2008 | No Comments »
Living in the moment
Doing the ‘do things’.
Being all that I can be
(All that You created me to be.)
Giving and loving
Being open
Doing for the Master.
Letting go for me
Is being unattached to the results.
It is not my responsibility
How the gift is received.
It is my responsibility
To have and use the God given ability
To respond to Spirit’s sweet Voice
That [...]
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Posted in Acceptance, Family, Mother, gratitude, love, memories, nature, poetry, tribute to Mother, tagged Family, memories, Mother, poetry, tomatoes on April 26, 2008 | No Comments »
I love the smell of a tomato field.
We picked them for Aunt Annie in the summer in New Brunswick.
I wanted a perfume that smelled like the vines and leaves.
Brandie made turkey bacon and tomato sandwiches for breakfast
When we had gathered together when you went Home.
You made the best sliced tomato platter when we were growing [...]
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Posted in 12 Step Program, gratitude, love, poetry, recovery, surrender, tagged 12 Step Program, gratitude, grief, living life on life's terms, poetry, recovery on April 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It gets better.
Everyday in every way
Life gets better and better.
The grief only tears out my heart every other minute.
I am working on my people skills.
I am working on my life.
I am allowing you in it.
I am working on my recovery.
I am working on learning, leaning and loving more
each day.
I am working on prayer, [...]
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Posted in 12 Step Program, Acceptance, Death and dying, Detachment, God, crone, depression, gratitude, grief, love, nature, poetry, recovery, spiritual renewal, spirtual awakening, surrender, tagged 12 Step, fifth step, gossip, Healing, hope, poetry, surrender on April 25, 2008 | No Comments »
The girl’s were getting together to “dish the dirt“
I thought they would be planting seeds or something.
They were.
They were gossiping…seeds of ‘dirt’about another Soul.
When day is done they put our ashes in dirt.
We cleanse our Soul to release the dirt.
We pray.
Do our step work and take the dirt
To our sponsor and release to our Higher [...]
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