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Sunday Prayer

Come and sit beside me for a moment, Nameless One.  I feel lonely and I wish to be near to You. First, the "thank you"s.  Thank you for life, for another day, and for the birds chirping yet again their praises to You in the trees.  Thank you for an evening with my daughters, for hammocks, and for ice cream.  Thank you for the majesty of the lake that sometimes frightens me with its depths, echoing of the numinous awe your holy presence brings to my consciousness.  The starting place of all faith:  the awe and fear and reverence of You.  Forgive me for the many times I because haughty, stiff-necked, proud, and dismissive of You and of life. The old cartoon of the angel and the demon on each shoulder does depict a reality:  we all have good and evil within ourselves, and we all can make the choice each day -- even each moment -- to heed the gentle, inviting whisper of the Good or to fall, as we are so very prone to do, into an abyss of despair....
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Introduction

My name is Greg and I am an addict. My name is Greg and I also call myself a Christian. This is a blog about my own journey of recovery from addiction, but also one that will undoubtedly reflect my own interests in theology, philosophy, religion, existentialism, and so forth.  It is not a blog about the political divisions of our day, but instead one that turns inward into the human heart since, ultimately, I have become convinced that each individual human heart can contain a universe of good or evil, and almost all contain both in various proportions.  If you are a spiritual seeker or an addict in recovery or a nihilist or a depressive or an uncertain, half-believing, semi-agnostic Christian then this blog might benefit you.  For I have been in each of those places.  It might also interest those who are enduring the pain of a particular loss since I have experienced that as well this year.  Spectators of all kinds are welcome in this online, virtual meetin...
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