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 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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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 12 Step Program, Higher Power, addicts, poetry, recovery, tagged 12 Step Poetry, 12 Step Program, addictions, birthday, Higher Power on April 28, 2008 | No Comments »
This birthday card is dedicated to a drunk I was in love with who was still in love with the bottle and the addiction.
It is your birthday.
You were important to me.
I was not important to you.
That made me sad.
Saying good-bye to you
Made me glad.
Your being emotionally unavailable
Made it mandatory.
That was too too bad.
I picked your [...]
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Posted in Higher Power, celebration of life, gratitude, grief, love, poetry, tribute to Mother, tagged celebration of life, Higher Power, Mother, Passing of a parent, poetry, Sunlight of the Spirit on April 20, 2008 | No Comments »
Well, all the snow that could possibly be
Is swirling around in the storm.
Interesting manifestation after the celebration
That the blizzard is not in my mind.
Your passing was the Celebration of Life
You had always planned.
Your beautiful photo hangs on my wall.
I talk to you often.
I hear you Rejoice.
You are home with the Master.
You have found your new Voice.
Your [...]
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Posted in 12 Step Program, Higher Power, Sunlight of the Spirit, addicts, gratitude, love, outreach, poetry, recovery, tagged 12 Step Program, outreach, poetry, recovery, Sunlight of the Spirit on April 11, 2008 | No Comments »
They were carrying the message.
Some spoke,
some smiled,
all hugged.
They drove many miles.
They were carrying the message
of recovery
of hope
of love for one another
of freedom from dope.
They were carrying the message.
We knew that they would.
How blessed we are
that they came
to our neighbourhood.
They carried the message of
love
service
gratitude.
Things that will help us with our attitude.
The outreach was appreciated.
No [...]
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Posted in 12 Step Program, Acceptance, Grace, Higher Power, Prayer, gratitude, love, poetry, spirtual awakening, surrender, tagged 12 Step Program, Higher Power, love, poetry on March 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The One I allow to see me
The One who hears me cry
The One who always loves me
The One who never asks why.
The One who walks beside me
When other friends have gone.
The One who can forgive me
For all the things I have done wrong.
The One who lives within me.
The One who fills the void.
The One [...]
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Posted in 12 Step Program, Higher Power, Sunlight of the Spirit, gratitude, love, poetry, recovery, surrender, tagged 12 Step Program, balance, discipline, gratitude, Higher Power, mindfullnes, poetry, surrender on March 28, 2008 | No Comments »
May I hear your Voice
in the laughter of a child
in the kindness of a friend
May my heart be open to
mindfulness
that this your child
I would have harmed with my anger
I would have harmed with my gossip.
May I surrender
these character defects
to open my life to balance.
Then the Sunlight of the Spirit
will cleanse me as I obey.
Bringing balance
patience
beauty
into [...]
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