Mother's Day

My Mom died just over 3 1/2 years ago (November 7, 2005). It’s been one heckuva ride since, from desires for death (suicidal or just praying for God to take me) through economic and financial instability to relocating to a new area for a cute lady and a new job, to marrying that cute lady …

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Recovering lost time

There is an article on Spirit Daily about how through prayer and trusting in God you can “recover” lost time, and turn mistakes in your past into some sort gain and merit. (Via Spirit Daily.) With God, all things are possible. Are you a creative Catholic? “The Catholicpunk Manifesto” is my new book exhorting Catholics …

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Our Happy Destiny and the Road it's Trudged upon

We are occasionally reminded that life is a journey. In sober circles it is referred to as “Trudging the Road of Happy Destiny”. We regard our recovery as a continual process leading all the way to our death, with the hope that we will reach whatever afterlife we believe in. In our case, it is …

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