Most of us want what we don’t have, including being somewhere other than where we are. “Someplace else would be better,” we think. Sometimes we’re not present because we…

Recovery programs and religions teach many of us to live one day at a time. When my son died, even one day at a time was too much. “Just…

“I wonder what’s wrong,” I said, trying to describe the morass I was in to a friend. “It feels like I’m wandering through a swamp wearing concrete boots.” “Silly…

My favorite story about praying for those I resent is one I told in Playing It by Heart. Here it is again: Years ago, when I spotted the Stillwater…

Let healing energy flow through your body. The healing energy of God, the Universe, life, and recovery surrounds us. It is available, waiting for us to draw on it,…

Men are not angered by mere misfortune but by misfortune conceived as injury. And the sense of injury depends on the feeling that a legitimate claim has been denied.…

As I journey through recovery, more and more I learn that accepting myself and my idiosyncrasies—laughing at myself for my ways—gets me a lot further than picking on myself…

Dear God, Thank you for the baby brother, but what I prayed for was a puppy. — Children’s Letters to God Sometimes we look around, assess the situation, and…