INTERNAL STRUGGLE

Constant search for the cause and methods of prevention is what it’s all about. Search and find to rescue what’s left worth saving. Not only from addictions but also from our character. To rescue us from the torment of our lives. Internal madness is much more common than it should be. Running wild and don’t care? In time our minds grind to a screeching halt and fade to dust. Scenario of a life that nobody remembers or cares about. Our last Rites for the Lost Soul has begun. All that remains is the reflection of the reading. Departing to return to our normal lives we think about the careless life the Lost Soul left behind. To see a reflection in ourselves and a similar ending. We struggle to escape the disaster the life of addictions will turn us into. The fear begins with constant grief. many sleepless nights will follow and as many nightmares to come. where do I find the solutions to save me? The frantic search to save himself the race is on. Will I find it in time? Pleading for comfort to ease his troubled mind. Convinced his time is running short as he remembers the final moments of the Lost Soul and many before him. Thoughts of the possibility of following in his footsteps. more frightening is that he lived a similar life. Days have past and no solutions to be found. Could it be the final hours? What could save him now in his desperate hour of need? Constant need of Booze and the trust to get him through the stresses of life. Now he will trust the advice of a friend he ignored. Will he find him in time? He may. Will he save himself at the same time? Stay with addictions and become a Lost Soul. We have a choice. What’s yours?

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TRYING YOUR LUCK

Being told in the beginning when you took your first drink. All the disasters of addiction and grief that will follow. You told yourself and others it couldn’t happen to you. Why won’t it happen? How could you predict your plan will work? It will be different? In what way? After being told of the risks beforehand. Ask yourself “Do I still want to drink”? Your decision to drink was it yours or someone else’s? Why was there encouragement to continue? Especially from yourself? Why did you let a friend debate it with you? It’s hard to judge the depths of the water by looking at the surface. How will you know before diving in? By what someone tells you? Not worth finding out the hard way? Drinking isn’t either and with the same disastrous results.

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PRINCIPLE OF REVERSE

Looking back at the cause of the problem and find a solution. A plan with the energy to get it solved. How did it start? I was never interested in marriage. Being a writer is my focus. Some people are not people-esque. Therefore I don’t fit in. A wandering writer is my place in life. Taking a course on how to survive a marriage is preparing us for the worst. Now we know what is ahead of us. Do you still want to be married? Not being prepared is like walking down the street with our eyes closed. Go in reverse to the beginning and get prepared. Learn how to solve issues before they happen. Because we know they will arrive. Not knowing when. Be into solving problems not into a worst case scenario marriage. Ending addictions can make a huge difference in itself. Oftentimes our frustration isn’t caused in a marriage. Perhaps in ourselves forcing ourselves to live a life we wished we never started. Go back to being single. To an interest you got depressed by giving up. Start again and plan a happier future.

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MORNING ARRIVALS

A group of ex-boozers walk away from addictions and into a better way of life. Revelations of a prayer meeting session. Revival bound mission begun to convert the world. Low glow of the morning sun energized people arriving. With happiness that addictions is far behind them. Look back and learn from your mistakes but don’t repeat them. Their free-spirited gatherings includes dancing and playing guitar and singing songs. Tells how high on life itself can be an inspiration. Discover it. Live it daily. In the songs sung in the misty morning meadow they sang that Jesus is more powerful than a dose of booze. Their following increased. Each morning they returned to the misty morning meadow and never to booze again. Better to improve the mind than killing it off. Reflections of Jesus and their new life. And the music played on. Energized outings in the cool mornings of spring. Dancing in the heat of the flaming sun. Singing songs about Jesus. “In a jingle jangle morning I’ll come following you”

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JESUS SAVES

We have joyous moods as the party continues. Slowing to grieve as we hide our faces from ourselves. We get drunk on whiskey then travel to the riverside. Looking down at the black water trying to understand the thoughts in our mind. Confusion and fear and doubt if this life will end. As long as the alcohol continues to flow so does the price we pay to the creator of our misery. We paid the price. Take what you paid for. Paid for with our Flesh,Blood,Soul and Brain. End up in limbo or the cemetery. Going back for more is fuel on the fire. Addictions is a pleasure palace of grief inside our twisted minds. With a strange sense of loyalty. Skull and crossbones buried into our soul. Going back to the scene of horrors. Free ourselves from the tyrant addictions is. We become squeezed and twisted and shaped into an unfamiliar person. To obey unbearable commands. To live in the future struggling to find an escape. Reaching for the Bible desperate for Jesus to save us.

With this joyous beginning. This party never ends.

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MAGIC OF MORNINGS

Reviving our spirits can be done in a church or just starting a better life. A plan with common sense can make the body energized. Surprised by being able to do it. Split the scene and take on a new groove. Usually means we were tired of the old one. The start of sobriety is the feeling of a new world in the morning. No more living the life of tragedy. A good feeling knowing the past is long gone. A spiritual revival is “A rebirth of a defeated life”. Bring yourself back to life. Feel alive. Create the confidence to do the things you kept saying you cannot do. Takes a clear mind to do these things. What kind of a plan can we make sitting on a barstool drunk? Planning the next drunk? Save yourself and your brain before it’s too late. I was told many years ago by a friend “Start showing some common sense”. Go to rehab and just do what they tell you. I did. I’m still doing it. There is something about the magic of mornings. Rebirth with the pale blue dawn.

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PARADISE OF GRIEF

Home life that can make your life a misery. Ever present fear of parental criticism. Trying to relax in the comforts of booze. In a routine everyone will lose. Experimenting with a self made noose. Putting money into a worthless life with plans we all regret somewhere down the road. Failed plans almost always makes us go back home. Leaving the failure behind and struggle to find a better plan. We think a lot about our failure, then less, then not at all. The painful memories will stir up. The shame, The hunger, The guilt, The rage, The cruelty of it all. A devastating life we lived and can avoid in the future. God provided us with a method of handling our own problems. All of them are printed in the Bible. Called the teachings of educated people. Written down for future Generations. Don’t blame God when our problems find no solutions creating a lack of faith. The faith is in our own knowledge struggling to find more each day. Inspired by God to inspire us. Alcohol and bar scenes is not the pleasure cruise we think it is. Just a paradise of grief.

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IN TUNE FOR LIFE

There was a person who became a musician had a difficult time fitting in. As time went on Booze was the regulator of the human emotion. Changing the personality to become the hooligan it required to be accepted. This is not true. If this person would have stayed with the natural true colors would have discovered fitting in would have worked without the addictions. Booze and drugs placing an emotion within was already there at birth. I have been to parties during my sobriety and the people there admired it. The band member’s environment required a crazy image thinking only addictions can create. Stay sober and be a crazy actor. Using addictions cost a young musician a life cut short. All because of a belief that addictions was necessary. Coping with stress was another reason. The musician became the type of person that didn’t want to exist. This thinking is common. Fellow band members should have mentioned it. Now you have no reason to use addictions and be out of tune and more reason to practice being yourself and be in tune for life.

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MENDING A RAGGED LIFE

Explain your reason for pushing yourself into the neon spotlight. Afterwards being forced into the shadows to grieve. Why would we live this unpleasant life and pursue more? Hardship becomes the next worthless routine. A preamble for worse things to come. Rehab is avoided by users who don’t think they have a problem. Accepted by those who believe a better life can be had. Start each day with renewed energy. Have a shred of gratitude. Become a loyal sympathetic soul. To inspire drinkers to follow the path to a new life. Torn clothing with holes and wearing thin in places. Don’t serve the purpose anymore. Mending lasts a short time. Replace the old worn out clothing with something new. Our lives are ragged and needs replacing. Sobriety never goes out of fashion and never wears out. A style that is accepted everywhere.

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SAVE MY SOUL

Cannot produce the necessary impact of sobriety without the support of loyalty and commitment to a new way of life. Loyalty is essential to maintain long term devotion in order for the results of successful sobriety to happen. Success depends on how much time is devoted to the study of sober living. We are basically a soul to be saved. Imprisoned in an evil world. Finding fulfillment only in the life to come. Chained to the evil life of addictions. Finding peaceful living in a sober life. That is easily obtained. Living the life of addictions still has not convinced you that being sober is the better choice? What will persuade you? Tragedy or basic Bible reading? We all need to improve. Why continue with hardship instead of reform? Drinkers appear like they are enjoying the Booze but in their sober hours they confess they hate the life. A life of sobriety is offering you a way out. This is where we learn to count our blessings not our problems.

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