Have you ever looked back on your past? In the modern world most of our pasts are easy to keep track of. Social media keeps a daily log for some of us and for others maybe a journal. If you don’t use either, you at least know your own past within memories you have chosen to hold onto over the years. Memories come packed with emotions, sights, sounds, and smells. Some deliver the feeling of nostalgia that can allow us to remember a life that has since passed on. I want to break this down so we...

We humbly asked Him to remove all our shortcomings. “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.” (1 John 1:9) In just a few days we will have entered July of 2026. This is the seventh month of the year. In our recovery meetings it is customary practice to have the first meetings slots of the month talk about the corresponding step of the 12-step program. So, January is the first step, February the second, so on and...

In recovery, it is easy to be brought down by the weight of our failures. When I began to sober up, I started seeing just how foolish I had been before. Any slip or mistake I made now also carried a new kind of grief. The kind that says I REALLY know better. Even if you are a day into recovery or sobriety, you know that being in a program such as WFR holds us to a higher level of accountability. Our yes should become a little stronger, our no even stronger yet. But knowing this just seems to...