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Remains #1 …a new creation…

09 Jul

Those close to me are well-aware of my many trials and tribulations. They know of my mental, professional, and legal struggles. They know of my addictions and of my path of recovery.

While this blog initially consisted of random thoughts and observations, I’m now adding a new feature that will chronicle the insights and lessons that I continue to stumble upon as I travel the rather steep and sometimes treacherous path of recovery.

This feature will not be a casual glance in the morning mirror…a glance taken only after the image has been showered, shaved and combed. This will be an intense examination of my “remains.”

Remains are the left-over’s, the remnants and the ruins. To the fraud, the remains are the pressure marks left upon the face when the mask has been removed. To the gambler, the remains are the coins left in one’s pocket after the fortune has been spent.
To the funeral director, the remains are the dead body whose spirit has departed.

But to me…my remains are much more! To me, my remains are the person I’ve admitted myself to be…melded into the person God is allowing me to become. To me, my remains are the mosaic that God is creating out of the broken pieces of my life.

 
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…the purple handgun…

22 Oct

I’m acquainted with a young woman who recently received a handgun as a gift. But this is no ordinary handgun. This is a purple revolver.

She and I are not really friends, we’re just acquaintances. We live in different states. We travel in different circles. She’s young and beautiful, drinks too much and smokes pot. She has a volatile personality. And now she has a purple handgun in her purse.

Partly I’m bothered because the gun is purple. Squirt guns and cap guns are purple! Toys are purple! A purple revolver virtually screams out, begging children to play with it. No real gun should ever be purple.

But I’m also bothered because of the owner’s personality. Our constitution guarantees nearly everyone the right to keep and bear arms. But not everyone has that right. Felons and those with diminished mental capacity are not permitted to own guns. She is not a felon and her mental capacity is far from diminished…unless she’s drinking or smoking or angry.

Maybe she’ll buy some sort of designer gun safe. Maybe she’ll keep the gun locked in that safe…and maybe she’ll forget the safe’s combination when she’s drinking or smoking or angry. One can only hope…