On Being Strong

Our precious Starshine -

STRIVE.

Strength is primarily expressed in the masculine.

Strength is fidelity to the truth; a measure of its brightness.

It is the noble glow of its own conviction; the ascendant magnitude of our every embrace of all those living and everliving things that belong to the timelessness in our souls.

Strength is secure in its patience being sure of the reality of itself; born of the light that understands the exactness of its own truth.

It is not harsh and uncertain of its own reality; born not of the lie that in the darkness understands not itself.

Strength is certain in its meekness. It is a temper of the will that neither rises nor falls but is even and steadfast against the assault of false things.

It is not a hardness that hides its unfamiliarity to its own virtue; being established not by ignorance of the value of the beautiful things it exists to serve and to keep.

It is not coldness. It is not distance. It is not decrease.

It is warmth. It is presence. It is increase.
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Love the LORD, thy God, in everything and with everything. This is the truth.

On Being Beautiful

Our precious Starshine -

DO NOT DESPAIR.

Beauty is primarily expressed in the feminine.

It is a state. You were born in it. For you are thus, and so with all beautiful things must strive to return to our LORD with it, being as you are - in the way that you are constantly remembered by our God in eternity.

Beauty is joyful. Eternally youthful. It is not a feeling. It is never passing.

Beauty is chaste. It can be claimed only by Love. It is not carnal. Invincible against lust.

Beauty is free -

You do not have to strive to be beautiful, precious Starshine, for Beauty is somewhere you may always return to, in your heart of hearts, a sufficiency that you share with the one Beautiful.

Nor must must others approve of your being yourself - for as flowers must bloom in their own time, so will you - therefore, Beloved of God, establish your roots in the timeless image and likeness within thyself and strive everyday to reach out into the outside world that needs so much of what you have to offer.
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Beauty is a thing beheld by the one Beautiful and so rejoices in God her savior.

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The Addict Bubble

"What is truth?" Pilate once asked Jesus (John 18: 38).

Oblivious to the fact that he was staring right at It, the Roman governor of that time exemplifies for us our sheer impotence before God.

Because unless God chooses to reveal it, we can not know the truth. And the most fundamental of all truth is we are each called to know, love, and serve the LORD, our God.

In particular Christian revelation, this truth is Christ Himself through which the Christian soul is made privy to the great mystery of God in all its splendor.

So what is the truth?

Thou shall love the LORD, thy God, with everything and in everything - that is the truth.

And in the Gospels, this truth was staring Pilate in the face.

He was actually sitting in judgment upon himself.

Now, the whole of our human reality is set in motion before us because of this one question; a motion that pivots around that one answer that Pilate sought in Christ.

This reality is like a bubble in the mind of God.

But to the addict mind, as it were, caught up in the wiles of active addiction, this reality is like a bubble that pivots around the self.

This bubble is the addict bubble.

For the suffering addict who is not yet cognizant of the message of recovery neither would nor could recognize this most fundamental of truths -

That thou shall love the LORD, thy God, with everything and in everything.

And that to this Higher Power alone must the suffering addict utterly and willingly ultimately surrender total control of his or her addiction to gain back control of his or her life.

He lives in an addict bubble; a sorry illusion built upon false hopes in false things - like a lie within a lie.

Simply put, within this unhappy reality built around a false sense of self, the addict worships not the God from Whose unifying and eternal Truth proceeds all other realities.

Isolated and alone, he sits in judgment only upon himself and unless God in His Truth so chooses to burst this false sense of reality, the addict will continue to suffer in vain.

Left entirely to himself, this suffering shall become his last end.

But recovery is possible because to God all things are.

So God, in His great wisdom and boundless mercy, bursts this addict bubble on his own good behalf and the addict finds himself bottoming out.

The suffering addict then seeks and providentially finds the fellowship of NA.

This is why it so important to live the message of recovery from an interior sense and not just from an exterior sense of exterior needs because the message itself is fundamentally spiritual in nature.

For we are the message itself - the entire fellowship of recovering addicts - lives lived in hope, replete with gifts, graces, and all.

That I am able to write this to you, my friend, is a gift of my own recovery...

Amen to the LORD if it helps to burst your bubble.

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Christ-centeredness is other-centeredness.