Soulshine

In many ways the human person is like a caterpillar. Throughout our lives we are faced with major changes that cause us great fear and emotional pain. Every day we are constantly being asked by God or the universe to change, grow and morph into being new creations; much like caterpillars change, grow and morph into being butterflies. This process is never pretty, however, because we are forced to leave our comfort zones and enter into dark, scary places inside ourselves. Deep within we realize that life—as we have known it—is changing in ways that make us fearful and resistant to these changes. Sometimes we may even feel like our world is coming to an end. And in reality, our world—as we have known it— may truly be coming to an end if we make the conscious choice to grow into the newness of life that God is calling us to enter. The choice is ours. We can freeze-up with fear and be overpowered by the need to stay in our comfort zone, or we can choose to move forward into an...

“All I do each night is pray hopin' that I'll be a part of you again someday All I do each night is think of all the times I close the door to keep my love within.” Take That, Pray (1993) Prayer can be as baffling and as confusing as addiction itself. Many people enter the doors of recovery suffering from more than just abuse inflicted upon them by others and themselves. Many of us also enter recovery feeling equally abused by God. And some of us could easily defend the concept that God is dead. After all, where was God when all of this abuse began happening to us as defenseless children? Why would a supposedly loving, all-powerful God sit back and do nothing to defend us? Where was God when we were learning to hate ourselves for not being good enough? Why didn’t God make us good enough? Why did God love other people more than us by making them better? Why isn’t God on my side? These are just a few of the very valid questions that any of us may ha...