October 3
Sackcloth
Tragedy is a tale unfinished. Life is far longer than calamity can endure. I will not give up, not even when hope is lost, for life carries forward; more is filled with optimism. Threads break, but the fabric is woven still, flowing off the living loom waiting to be used. I will cut my swath and fashion a garment to wear and if sometimes it is filled with ashes I will sit and grieve all the while knowing that this is never the stories end.
See through your own shades
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AMENDS
Amends is about truth and change.
The relationships of my past
Were places of little truth
And even less change.
I tried to be nice----not honest
I tried to keep things going
Even when they needed to die.
Making amends has ended
Most of my relationships from the past.
A quick 10th step keeps me
From starting too many new ones.
Good healthy relationships
Require time and attention
So this necessitates a short list.
Sometimes I wish for more quantity
But I realize in sobriety
I cannot accept less quality.
You are reading selections from More Sober on the Way to Sane and Lines From My Life by Sherrie Theriault
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