January 19
What Is A Sheep To Do?
Things are bad out there. I see the trouble as I circle within the flock. Many of us whisper to each other as we pass. How can I create lasting change? Is there something helpful that will not separate me from my precious life, something that will not make me prey to the vultures before I even realize that I’m dead? How can I live and strive while the wolves hold the hilltops? Is the choice merely, one death or the other? Is there an as yet unseen path? Can I find it while maintaining my place in this congregation? What is a sheep to do?
Topple the toys from their bins and play
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Tea or Sympathy
Tears pouring into the teacup growing cold on the table create a sea of emotions uncharted. If I can not offer sympathy to the contents, the soulless heel that I am, how then do I expect to have a future? If I will tender only meager tolerance toward the spindled thing valiantly trying to beat within me why do I even show my face to the mirror? If shoulders are cold and turned inward then I will collapse into the inexpressive, dismal thing that has been misshapen through misuse and I might as well drink the chilly tea for that’s all the comfort I’ll get. I must do better by myself in order to brew a better world.
Smooth one hand with the other.
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SOD
Green and black
Pinwheels of rolled grass
Speed by me on a flat bed.
Sod
Headed for home
That is how it is for me.
I grew up in a place of impermanence
A place clearly not my destination
Uprooted and prepared for relocation I am in transition.
My future surroundings unknown
Will be a perfect fit.
I have been anticipated
Grown for a purpose of which I am uninformed.
I have done my part, I am ready to lay down my roots
And become a lawn of seamless expanse
Somewhere my Higher Power is grading a hill
Smoothing the way.
I am ready to take my place
In the landscape
Of sober living and right thinking.
Vlog:
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You are reading selections from More Sober on the Way to Sane and Lines From My Life by Sherrie Theriault