…looking in, it’s hard to understand. From the inside looking out, it’s hard to explain.
Recovery
Hurt
When the sun has arisen…
When the sun has arisen, where then remains the night? When the army of grace has come, where then remains affliction?
– Rumi
Photo: Falmouth, Maine town landing – January 2017
NOW I think I understand
historic steps
12 of them.
Photo: Savannah, GA, March 2016
amen
We come to God much more by doing things wrong than by doing things right. – Richard Rohr
surviving the great hours of our life
We cannot assert that someone who is well behaved, devout, and virtuous in ordinary life, is also already certain of surviving the great situations where it is a question of life or death. The grace of such endurance is a grace that no one can merit by good behavior in ordinary life. But ordinary life is indeed the way in which we must remain ready for the decisive situations; it can be the way in which God wants to give us the very grace—which we cannot demand—of surviving the great hours of our life. We must be faithful in little things in order to be permitted to hope that God in his grace will also send us faithfulness in great things. – Karl Rahner, Words of Faith
understanding backward
Life must be lived forward, but it can only be understood backward.” – Soren Kierkegaard
got real real fast
accept whatever befalls
Accept whatever befalls you,
when sorrowful, be steadfast,
and in crushing misfortune be patient;
For in fire gold and silver are tested,
and worthy people in the crucible of humiliation.
Trust God and God will help you;
trust in [God], and [God] will direct your way;
keep [God’s] fear and grow old therein.
– Sirach 2:4-6
Edge of Atlantic 