why wait to get to the gate………………that you perceive as heaven………… what i have come to find is heaven is in my mind……..i manifest those thoughts in my world….. there are issues that no longer need to be made into problems……………..there are solutions and appropriate answers………….often they require my greatest challenge……patience…..but they are there…………….. i…

you press down on one end when no one is looking to see the inside and after several intrusions you make your choice………………………not what you expected…….but it doesn’t deter you from trying again……………. that’s about the ”skinny” on life…… you press down on things to try and get clues and sometimes your assessment is close…

i may never be able to recollect or pinpoint when i started to slip……………….but my experience leads me to believe…………….when i took my eyes off the ‘Cross’…………………. when my life and my marriage started to unravel….i was going through the motions of life but my focus was on acquiring and consuming any mind altering substance…

there was a time when my world was looking thin……… i was out of options and i thought that it might end…… someone that i knew but i wouldn’t have called him a friend….. heard about my dilemma and took the time to find out where i lived….. we talked as we walked through a…

i can’t ignore the issues that confront our nation and our world…………………but i refuse to so encumbered by them that i forget about the God I Love……………..He has taken me from the gates of Hell and set my feet on solid ground…….and I know that He is in charge and knows what’s been going down…….…

that finger that you point looks tired………………you have been holding it out for a long time and i can see you are growing weary from the strain……………….sit down…..and just ”be” for a spell……………… if everyone is wrong all the time………you would have to be ”right” all the time…..you must be very smart and that must…

Augean……………………..difficult and unpleasant like taking down the facade that you have been hiding behind for years and admitting you are as scared at times as everybody else….. finding the courage to examine old worn out prejudices and beliefs and packing them up and throwing them out and refusing to answer the door when they knock…

that part of the game is over………………………constantly moving…..never being where i actually was at the time……..always onto the next ”thrill” or the next ”thing”………………..now the next thing has correctly scaled back to the ”now thing” from the ”next thing”and i wish it hadn’t taken so long……but i’m glad i’m here………. being comfortable with myself to…

i met a man who was clear in his speech…….combed his hair and brushed his teeth…..helped an elderly woman cross the street………………………extraordinary went to work and held a job……..volunteered from time to time at a local ”Boys Club”…….has three kids and is married to their mom…………………extraordinary goes to church and teaches Sunday School……….shows his family…

”I read your poem the other day…..when i was at a loss for words……….i must admit i was rather discouraged with what was going on in my world………….i remembered you were in recovery as i raised the gun to my head…….your words pounded in my head and i put the gun aside……………..i remember a verse…