MaggieMae
Reality bits
- Apr 3, 2009
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What morality do we hold that is not man-made programming? And is ther really any grace?
Given the men I have known I do not think humanity intelligent enough to provide the grace I have been granted.
God knows I am not.
My wife should not stay with me, I wouldn't, be she loves me.
I have a son that is the moon, what did I do to deserve him other than give my wife a night of howling to the moon?
I drink like a fish yet my liver is fine.
I like to get drunk and fly on motorcycles at speeds that could crack sound.
No death, only one wreckless driving charge.
There is grace in this world.
But grace is like love, if you question it too much you will kill it.
You have the heart of a poet. Substance abuse abounds in that community. Sometimes I think it is a few too many nerves exposed that produces the poetry, and the pain to be dulled.
That brings to mind the Serenity Prayer, which may be just the 'medicine" Gunny needs. The reason only the first few lines are embraced by AA/NA et al., is because many members don't buy into the "surrender" factor of the rest of it. But here it is in entirety (and apologies for duplicating it if someone else has posted this further on).
The Serenity Prayer
(full text)
GOD, grant me the serenity
to accept the things
I cannot change,
Courage to change the
things I can, and the
wisdom to know the difference.
Living ONE DAY AT A TIME;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardship as the
pathway to peace.
Taking, as He did, this
sinful world as it is,
not as I would have it.
Trusting that He will make
all things right if I
surrender to His Will;
That I may be reasonably happy
in this life, and supremely
happy with Him forever in
the next. Amen
Reinhold Neibuhr-1926