July 2011

Living Rough on the Riverbank

A homeless alcoholic, he didn't believe in God until one morning when he heard from his higher power

I did not know anything much about spirituality when I got sober. The only spirit I knew came in a bottle. I couldn't see how any power whether higher or whatever had been helping me. I professed to dislike religion and god, yet I was often to be found ranting and raving about the woes of my life at the crucifix that hung from the parish church where I spent a lot of my drinking time in the winter months.

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