Sign Language for Dogs

i read these words in the Bible before i start the day and i ask You to send the Holy Spirit to help me understand what i have read that helps me with understanding what it is You would have me do but as i go about my travels, Your…

if you need a reason to continue down this road of recovery take a moment and think back about how your life used to be i know the unknown is a scary place to go, but remember others have gone before you and they will help you along the way…

so you have appointed yourself to the bench the power to help or the power to lynch and sometimes we all could use a ”time out” but brother we all need compassion from time to time it took awhile for me to understand that the gift of love can only…

i am not the little boy in the street that doesn’t have a crumb of bread to eat, that fights off the cold with cardboard and leaves, but i know he is out there i am not the woman who sells her flesh to buy a drug that she injects,…

few have the courage to be the real person they are supposed to be between pressure from the world around and the confidence to sometimes go it alone, we give in the hippest of the hip are on their own trip and they refuse to be defined or corralled into…

there is an umbrella that goes with me and protects me from the rain sometimes it rains from the heavens and sometimes it rains from men but it really doesn’t matter where the storm comes from, for I am protected by the umbrella and God surrounds me with His Love…

doing for others does more for me gives me purpose and sets my heart free to do what it was intended to do be a beacon for hope and hand to help someone up shallow life indeed when i am consumed with me but to get my life back on…

you only call Me when you arse is in a jam and that’s too bad for I AM THE GREAT I AM I saw you in and I’ll see you out, it’s the in between that I could help you out but you have a plan and what do I…

run,run,run as fast as i can but wherever i go there i am so it makes no difference where i stand, i stand arm in arm with the same old man wasn’t expecting a miracles just a few days in a row when i didn’t regret being me or the…

chosen to bear the burden of addiction because i was going to do it my way God didn’t curse me with addiction, rather blessed me i was going to have to make a choice, my way or His way it was going to be like that, a constant battle of…

my past is part of me and had a heavy hand in determining my present but recognizing the power of affirmation or the lack of it i see how my desire to be loved and needed as well as my desire not to be overly exposed has been in a…

may the God n me see the God n u in everything we say and do when we are confused and life comes unglued may the God n me see the God n u we humans get confused, short on patience, shorter fuse if we can resist the temptation to…

we’re not lost, don’t need to be found far as i can tell we stand on common ground i don’t really care about your politics, i would like to know your name we breathe the same air and rise to the same sun let’s put all this division aside and…

your walk, your facial expression, what you are thinking, your hands, your eyes are saying something long before you open your mouth the stage is set for you oration, you set it and most of us are unaware what we are saying i cannot come to you in confusion or…

one day before my birthday, a thought crosses my mind about tomorrow, it’s almost here, then what? seems like i have been living and waiting all my life to get somewhere, and i am already here tomorrow may be my birthday, which at 64 is just another day and i…

it only takes one to turn the tide to reach someone who is trying to hide to clear a path where hope can walk in give someone the chance to start over again only takes one who will give an ear and be an audience to someone who needs to…

you have the best doctors in the world, you really do, but it seems use could use a little more help your wife is driving your son back to school, a 1,000 mile round trip and you want to protect them work is changing everyday and you are worried about…

empty: not filled depending on your attitude, which everything depends on ones’ attitude, can be a rough place or a new beginning grateful not to feel less than or down, just sorta level…………………………and that’s not a bad place don’t feel the necessity to hurry to the next place or start…

they seem to come and go don’t they the clock spins, the world rearranges itself and we protest, fume, accept and adjust not necessarily in that order i am at a point in my life, where i am questioning why i do the things i do what’s my motivation, my…

i must admit i cannot see most of the things that lie ahead of me so i must depend on a knowledgable friend that has that ability i often forget that i am ill-equipped to handle much of what comes my way but if i have the presence of mind…

artistic people do what they do, because they are compelled to doesn’t matter about applause, or cause, you just have to get it out so i’m over here, look if you dare, something could strike a nerve or pluck a heart string but it’s up to you what you do,…

in the back of the drawer is the stuff that has been kept but pushed aside most of it is worthless papers and coupons never used some of this is relevant enough to keep but never filed in its appropriate place …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. the aforementioned is also an accurate description of…

try it not as easy as you think sit down without thinking about the next thing you need to do dissolve into your chair and see how hard it is to relax on…………………always on the damn switch is hard to move because it’s been stuck in the ”on” position for…

i struck out again, when it comes to being controlled by my emotions i hear the train a comin’ and it’s rolling down the track, and before everyone can get out-of-the-way it knocks them on their backs doesn’t matter about the issue, it’s a common one that comes up frequently,…

you know where the buttons are …………………….i let you install them   and i see how easily it is to control me because you know my emotions will always do me in   but i’m tired and i have only myself to blame………………i’ve hired a crew to come in today…

after one has opened the door there is much to know and terrain to explore and i didn’t move to a distant shore, i turned my life over to You to You who created everything known and unknown, who sends messengers to direct me and lead to a life that…

run, run , run, as fast as you can………………….hurry here i come again it isn’t hard for me to see i by far am my worst enemy often i like to think there are two, the one that wants to do right and the other that loose but in reality,…

i have found out unpleasantly that what is said and seen i don’t always receive correctly so often i must ask for a pause to ask questions about what has transpired or it isn’t long before i find i have become entwined in a mire of confusion i don’t really…

i don’t spend much time looking back, just enough time to keep intact a vivid memory of what my life would be without recovery i suggest all should do the same and take a fair look at what is and what could be and if one isn’t happy with the…

having to admit that all my attempts at modification of your behavior have had the similar result of taking a thimble of water from the ocean in my mind i sit on he beach and reflect on how limited my power was within myself for so many years, and yet i…