Cold and Flu Season

July 7

COLD AND FLU SEASON

The spiritual cold and flu season is upon me.  I am awash in reaction and confusion.  I have been overexposed to the dry thinking and barking orders of the cough so associated with this disability.  My eyes swell and blur with my refusal to accept reality.  The tickle of discomfort from inhaling disagreeable ideas is small in comparison with the nausea I suffer when I swallow every line of nonsense put forth from my dizzy and congested mind.  There is no pill to dissuade my symptoms; I must raise the heat on this inertiac little bug.  Parasites breed in the stagnant water of my paralysis.  If I move in my sobriety, sweat a little and flush my system, I should be able to shake this insidious germ.  Then I can reach my hand out to the people who caught the spiritual flu from me.

Write pretty words on pretty paper.

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Tooth Fairies and Super Heroes

I never know who the tooth fairy is going to be.

Who might be the one person

who will know CPR in my hour of need.

Which unlikely friend will whisper to me

the secret code to my mental lock.

I have been caught off guard by the power

of the most unlikely wallflowers.

It is important for me not to prejudge,

but even more important to leave space for surprise

and the delightful aptitude of those around me

For that matter from strangers on the street.

it is good for me to remember there is change in my pocket

and a Resuscitation Certificate in my wallet.

You are reading selections from Sober on the Way to Sane and More Lines From My Life by Sherrie Theriault

http://www.amazon.com/Sober-On-The-Way-Sane/dp/1440417342/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1388576888&sr=8-1&keywords=sober+on+the+way+to+sane

http://www.amazon.com/More-Lines-From-My-Life/dp/1448677203/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1388576956&sr=8-1&keywords=More+Lines+From+My+Life

Choice

May 21

CHOICE

Growth is my decision.  I don’t need conflict or catastrophe to bring me to change.  I choose each day come what may, to roll out the refuse.  I am not tempted to leave it in to rot just because the sun is shining.  Good days are good times to improve.  How could integrity be retarded by joy?  I am not punished into recovery.  I will never accept a Higher Power who set up a system like that and I give wide berth to people who claim their Higher Power did.  My bottom may have been an inducement to start but choice keeps me coming back.

Smile in the mirror and look into your eyes.

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Balustrade

Just because you appeared from the dark

doesn’t make you a wizard.

Just because you make the world safe for mankind

doesn’t make you Hercules,

nor does your power and foresight make you his father.

Your resourcefulness and guile doesn’t make you Ulysses.

And just because you spend so much time

strapped upon that cross doesn’t make you,

well, we all know the rest of that refrain.

Human is what you are whether I see that in you or not.

Human is a blessing even if it feels to me a curse.

I need the superhuman strength you seem to offer

but I must live in the world of what is real.

I want to be stolen away to the safety of your lair

and not live on my feet and fight for my life.

I have to stop wishing to be your captive

and work harder at simply being your friend.

If I can let you down off your pedestal perhaps

I could then climb down off mine.

You are reading selections from Sober on the Way to Sane and More Lines From My Life by Sherrie Theriault

http://www.amazon.com/Sober-On-The-Way-Sane/dp/1440417342/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1388576888&sr=8-1&keywords=sober+on+the+way+to+sane

http://www.amazon.com/More-Lines-From-My-Life/dp/1448677203/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1388576956&sr=8-1&keywords=More+Lines+From+My+Life

Tooth Fairies and Super Heroes

July 8

Tooth Fairies and Super Heroes

I never know who the tooth fairy is going to be.  Who might be the one person who will know CPR in my hour of need.  Which unlikely friend will whisper to me the secret code to my mental lock.  I have been caught off guard by the power of the most unlikely wallflowers.  It is important for me not to prejudge, but even more important to leave space for surprise and the delightful aptitude of those around me and for that matter from strangers on the street.  Also, it is good for me to remember there is change in my pocket and a resuscitation certificate in my wallet. 

Repattern the impressions made on you

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FAR OFF PLACES

Meetings too near home are unsatisfying to me.

On smooth simple days, local meetings are fine,

I catch a meeting, just slip it in.

On rough days I yearn for an out of town meeting.

After these many 24’s I come to realize I need the ride

As much as I need the meeting.

Like a discontented baby,

I need more that just a trip around the block.

The comfort of taking flight in my car

Is equaled by arriving at some far off AA meeting

Fresh faces and a new take on old woes

Are an antidote to my colicky attitude.

The drive back offers a sense of triumphant homecoming

A good meeting can be had anywhere

Sometimes I just need a change of place

Or a change of pace.