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Coffee!
It’s National Coffee Day today, so I am doing the only thing that a good MoM would do and having lots of coffee. There a plenty of options here with my daughter so I am working my way around town and sampling the brew. Some of it has been good; some not so much. That’s…
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Surprise!
Last week your MoM went to see The Who on their “The Song is Over” North American Farewell Tour. I had never seen this particular band but wanted to. Once their bass player passed it felt a bit hollow, so I had demurred at previous opportunities. With both of the remaining guys being octogenarians I…
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Serenity
I hate to be one of those old people who talk about “the world that we live in”. Let’s just get that out of the way right off the top. But mercy, what is up with the world we live in?!? It wasn’t that long ago that we were encouraged to boycott the NFL because…
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Doing the Work
In one of my current Step Studies we have completed our Steps up to Step 8. Of course that means that we have done our Inventories. However, I had a person decide that they needed to add more to their inventory before they could keep progressing forward. This being their first time through the Steps,…
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I Didn’t Even Know
Today I had a work day for the ministry. We called it “Manual Labor Day”. We had a lot of tedious tasks to perform, so having about 8 people show up was great. We got a ton of stuff done that would have taken me a long time to accomplish on my own, so I…
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Control
Working in recovery and working in prisons I get to see a lot of people who want to have control. People want control over other people, situations, addictions, the list is huge and this barely scratches the surface. We want it so badly that we adopt the illusion that we actually have it. We try…
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Bifff
Yesterday I watched the season opening match for Arsenal with a friend. Before you ask, no, Mrs MoM, this is not another blog post about soccer! My friend is a fan of the team we were playing, so we decided to watch together. My friend also has a 13 month old son who was cruising…
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A Bit Late
In 1989 I was standing in my best friend’s mother’s living room. We were going to go do something and he was getting ready. I don’t even recall what it was now and I just spent a bit of time trying to remember it. What does stand out is that MTV (that was a basic…
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A Big Tent
I got to spend time in a tent this weekend. It was a ministry run by His Place in Westminster. They go to a park, throw up some easy ups and tents and do ministry for homeless people and people suffering from addictions. Galatians 2:10 compels us to remember the poor people in our society.…
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Now You See It…
As I left my house this morning to go to the annual Celebrate Recovery Summit Mrs. Mom noticed two planets in the 5 am sky. Of course, I am not typically awake at this early hour, so it was a relatively new sight for me. I’ve seen these planets before, just not at this time…
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