Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.

I've seen batting all over the world. And in other countries too

The whole Bible is the story of men and women trying to get back to God, to overcome that sin with sacrifices, good works, sermons, prophesy, witnessing, giving all kinds of things. It never worked

A lot of us have jobs where we need to give people structure but that is different from controlling.

Memories must enter the bloodstream, must churn awhile through the heart's mill, must be crushed and polished, be nearly forgotten or cling like burs to other stories before they spill forth in purple patterns, shapes of small bones and worm rot, shapes of clouds and the spaces between leaves.

Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society.

I learned that the purpose of the Twelve Steps is to do the will of God.