musings

There's something healing and right about openly acknowledging one's failures when they happen. But who can be trusted with such info? Finding a person you can trust & truthfully share can take a lifetime. Most never find that person. The result makes life much more difficult. Why? Because they'll never experience the pinnacle of understanding & healing. But if one seeks & finds, life becomes a two-way street where sharing, giving and help is practiced life tumbles. And it often does.Nobody lectures here. They simply tell stories with the candor only found in trusting, transparent relationships. When 2 people build a relationship on these they can feel comfortable openly “telling” where they went wrong and how day by day they are trying to do right. They convey where they find the strength, understanding and hope. Sometimes one will take the responsibility for another and make themselves available day or night if a need arises. There's not much more to it than that. Healing happens. Miracles are made.You can't help thinking that something like this is what the church was meant to be and maybe once was before the church became an institution alike big business.AA understands all this well. No matter what far a place alcoholics end up in, either in this country or overseas, they know that there will be an AA meeting nearby and at that meeting they will find strangers who are not strangers to listen to the truth and to tell it. Would it ever occur to a Xian in a faraway place to turn to a church nearby in hope of finding the same. Would they find it? If not you wonder what is so Big about a church's business today