by Scott Weeman | Aug 29, 2017 | Alcohol & Drug Addiction, The Twelve Steps
I have had a long love/hate relationship with school. It has been both a rose and a thorn in my life, getting much more complicated when my addiction to alcohol, drugs, and other attachments ran rampant upon starting my freshman year of college. Growing up, I...
by Scott Weeman | Jul 30, 2017 | Alcohol & Drug Addiction, Prayer & Scripture Reflections, The Twelve Steps
“Half-measures avail us nothing,” are words spoken in Twelve-Step recovery that are meant to reveal the importance of keeping our recovery efforts on the front of our minds and actions. This day-at-a-time commitment to discovering a new way of life and maintaining it...
by Scott Weeman | Jun 14, 2017 | Alcohol & Drug Addiction, Prayer & Scripture Reflections, The Twelve Steps
This Sunday the Church celebrates the Feast of Corpus Christi (the Body and Blood of Christ). All three readings this weekend move toward finding nourishment, perseverance, and true freedom after having to journey through a spiritual desert. The Egyptians traveled out...
by Scott Weeman | Feb 13, 2017 | Alcohol & Drug Addiction, The Twelve Steps
We are in the grips of spiritual warfare. While God is our source of life and salvation, the enemy uses some of our God-given desires to pull us away from His sunlight. One of the paramount tools that is used in this fight against good is addiction. Often starting as...
by Scott Weeman | Aug 13, 2015 | Alcohol & Drug Addiction, Prayer & Scripture Reflections
Have you ever been baffled by the choice of a person you love to resort back to the source of their pain to relieve their pain? Have you ever found yourself in a spot where you couldn’t delineate the difference between your problem and your solution? Whether you’ve...