Paige Thomas DeHart

There are only two choices: integration and acceptance of our whole life story, or despair. – Eric Erikson

I think that I needed to walk away from the 12 steps and into the door of the church to find out that I have to give it away to keep it.  I embraced the church wholeheartedly, but I have come to believe that the “therapeutic value of one addict helping another is without parallel.”  I die on the vine without recovery; the authenticity of broken people sharing the truths of themselves.  My gift as a leader lies in helping the newcomer.

Boy, can I ever get things backwards!  I believed that I was beyond helping newcomers; that I only was supposed to work with those that wanted to become spiritual disciples.  It just doesn’t get more spiritual than being broken bread and poured out wine for others.  Jesus was transfigured on the mount – but he went back down to the valley – and then went up another hill to be crucified that those that cannot do it for themselves could become different.  That’s what it is all about.

The Journey Continues

September 23, 2009