I have started a new routine this week, where I wake up early enough to meditate before work. I recognized that hitting snooze, while pleasant, is not adding any restorative rest, and therefore I can spend that time healing in a different way. In my time alone with perfect posture and my higher power, it …
In trying to understand my anxieties around returning back to work after the winter break, I turned to meditation, a Christian question and answer website, and my study Bible, in order to help demystify this chronic discomfort that I have around my current employment, and most all of my past jobs. I had an epiphany: …
I’ve been thinking what my word for 2023 will be. I had narrowed it down to a couple, and decided this morning that it will be “service”. I have been learning about service over the past decade in my program of recovery, because the crux of the work around sobriety rests on the concept of …
In my morning meditation today I thought of all the people who I want to wish a happy New Years to, but who just aren’t in my life anymore. In the past, that wouldn’t stop me, I would use this festive opportunity to reach out via text and hope that maybe we could rekindle a …
As we have reached the pinnacle of the Advent season that focuses on “peace on earth and good will to all”, I’ve been reflecting on what it means to have peace. As someone who has struggled with mental health over the decades, I am never quite sure what “peace” really looks like. Is it a …
I’ve been trying to stay off YouTube, as it steals my serenity and my attention away from the things that truly matter, such as my relationship, but I watched some Shorts today, and I found out some shocking news about a famous dancer who killed himself two weeks ago. During the pandemic, I had briefly …
“The people walking in darkness have seen a great light;on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned.You have enlarged the nation and increased their joy;they rejoice before you as people rejoice at the harvest,as warriors rejoice when dividing the plunder.” Isaiah 9.2-3, NIV Now that I am continually moving forward, giving my best to this …
“For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm.” Ephesians 6.12-3, ESV I’ve …
Every so often, when I feel myself slipping into my black and white fundamentalist thinking, I take it out on my program of recovery. One of the founders never fully recovered from his affliction of alcoholism: he never fully denounced certain dangerous practices, such as adultery and occultism. As a result, when the second cofounder …
I was listening to one of my favourite preachers, and he was teaching about feeling bold in Christ. He told an exaggerated story how a person’s exorbitant debt was paid off by Jesus and how he proclaimed, even at his work, that Jesus saved him. The question posed to the listener was, do we have …