Image credit: Photo by spud murphy on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons I know few partners of addicts who (whatever they may think of 12 Step) don't look forward with breathless anticipation to the glorious day when their addict reaches Step 9. Wonderful, special Step 9. Step 9: making amends to those who have been [...]
Posts under ‘amends’
The Greatest Amend of All
Image credit: Photo byLoving Earth on FlickrLicensed under Creative Commons I was recently working with my online step group on Step 8 of the 12 Steps. This is the one where we make a list of people we've harmed and become willing to make amends with them. One of the exercises we completed asked us [...]
Amends
Image credit: Photo by lapidim on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons I've been working the 12 Steps with an online group, and after a few weeks compiling our fearless and searching moral inventories, our group finished Step 4. When I shared some of my work with my husband, he was amazed at how thorough the [...]
Dedications
My yoga class has become my church, the place where I return to my spiritual center. We chant at the beginning of each class: a chant for enlightenment in a language I don't understand, but the chanting fills my chest with reverberating sound. I love the way "om" starts out with that deep down vibrating [...]
Clean Slate
"My mouth's bleeding, Bert! My mouth's bleeding! Zuzu's petals...Zuzu's petals! There they are! Bert, what do you know about that!"~George Bailey, It's a Wonderful Life There have been times I've experienced computer problems when I would spend hours and hours cleaning up this and patching that. And at some point I'd find it was just [...]
An Open Letter to my Father
Dear Dad, I remember one night when I was maybe ten. It was a weekend or a holiday, so there was no reason to be up early the next morning, and I suspect I couldn't sleep. I was standing in the living room in my nightgown, and instead of sending me off to bed, you [...]
