Soulshine

“Martha, Martha, you are anxious and worried about many things. Mary has chosen the better way and it will not be denied her.” Jesus Christ, Gospel of Luke Addictive personalities are gods unto themselves. Even those of us who may be regular church-goers still suffer from self-godliness. We’re control freaks. We rule the world and everyone in it who affects us in any way. We’re all Martha’s, the Christian Patron Saint of Control Freaks. Like Martha we profess faith in a Higher Power, but we rarely relinquish control to that Higher Power. Every time we meet Martha in the Christian Gospels, she’s working hard at telling God what God needs to do, or she’s telling God how to correct the mistakes God has made. The quote above is taken from a story about Jesus visiting the home of the two sisters, Martha and Mary. Martha is anxious about preparing dinner while Mary is entertaining Jesus. Martha gets mad that Mary isn’t helping her and she commands Jesus to tell Mary to get ...

“This is the day your life will surely change. This is the day when things fall into place. You could've done anything -- if you'd wanted. And all your friends and family think that you're lucky. But the side of you they'll never see Is when you're left alone with the memories That hold your life together like Glue.” This Is the Day by The The Sometimes the memories that hold our lives together like glue are the same memories that hold us bound to our addictions like glue. And sometimes we’re able to hide those addictive memories and secrets very well; so well, that family and friends think we’ve really got it together or are actually “lucky.” Prior to entering recovery, I thrived at being an overachiever. It always seemed like an oxymoron to me: I thought I was a living piece of shit and yet I thrived at work in public and press relations. I edited award-winning publications; winning awards on local, state and national levels. I drove a beau...