Once you express your sorrow from the bottom of your heart it will be washed away. Look at a flower it can never hide its scent nor its color. – Rumi Step 9 asks us to make amends to those we have harmed. When we do so, we are cleansed. We don’t do it…

  It’s a joy to sing, like the birds do. David Byrne – How Music Works One of the joys I have discovered in recovery is in singing. I’ve always loved music, but also never thought I could sing well. When I came into recovery, I also started going back to church. And, in church,…

  I have a plum tree … and every year it blooms. … it has put out its slightly pinkish blossoms without hesitation or haste. It has made no demands on me to admire it, but it has also done nothing to avoid my attention. Having Had a Spiritual Awakening, Al-Anon There is much beauty…

  It was the spring before we moved again, a list of what we must do on the refrigerator, when my daughter and I found a turtle in the road.… … At last I put my stick away and left him to decide which direction was best. If I forced him off the road he…