Do you know the difference between a cow and a buffalo? When storms come, cows and buffaloes do two completely opposite things. Cows run from the storm, while buffaloes run into the storm. By running from the storm, once the storm catches them, cows end up in the storm longer than the buffalo, who is…
Do you ever look back at the end of the day and feel like you accomplished almost nothing? Let me set you straight on that. We are living on a planet that is speeding through space at nearly 67,000 miles per hour. So even on a bad day, a day when you don’t get much…
A few months ago, we were hit by a hurricane. Two weeks later, it happened again. There were differences between Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton. For us, one of the differences was that with Milton, we lost power for what felt like six months. (It was actually six days.) When the power went out, everything…
Which of these five things are absolutely necessary to obtain sobriety? Answer: none of the above I bet you didn’t expect that answer, did you? Of course, each of these are keys to lasting recovery. But I said, “absolutely necessary.” Before you send an angry email or cut off your $500 monthly support to our…
In my book, Recovery Rules, I start with Rule #1 – If you are 90% in, you’re 100% out. Case in point – King Amaziah “Amaziah was 25 years old when he became king, and he reigned 29 years in Jerusalem. He did right in the sight of the Lord, yet not with a whole…
“Dear friends, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from lustful desires, which wage war against your soul” (1 Peter 2:11). Over my past ten years of sobriety, I have learned two things: Recovery is a war. It never ends. We never get to the point when the enemy backs off and says,…
Let’s talk lightning and giraffes. We’ll start with lightning. There are 1.4 billion lightning strikes per year across the globe, which comes to 44 strikes per second. Lightning hits 270 people per year, and about 10 percent of those unfortunates die as a result. But the news is even worse for giraffes. From 1996 to…
One day, Charlie Brown was depressed. Lucy diagnosed the problem: “Charlie Brown, the problem with you is that you’re you.” Charlie responded, “Oh, and what can I do about that?” Lucy said, “I’m not here to give any prescriptions. I’m just here to point out the problems.” Do you have people like that in your…
“Abstain from sinful desires, which wage war against your soul” (1 Peter 2:11). The key word in that command is “desires.” Peter didn’t warn us to not engage in sinful activities. The desire is bad enough. Why? Because that is what torments our souls. And wherever we indulge our mind today, our body will follow…
Spencer Johnson wrote a popular book called The Present: The Secret to Enjoying Your Work and Life Now. His premise was that to have a life that is effective, you have to learn how to be “fully present.” Most of us have trouble with that. We are too concerned about yesterday, even though we can’t…