You don’t have to travel far down the life path before coming in contact with challenge and difficulty.In fact, some say that life by design is defined by challenge and difficulty and that much of the good that life has to offer us can only be found in the challenging times.
And in this matter of challenge and difficulty, I’ve noticed that no matter how big or small our particular challenges are as compared to some objective measure of human difficulty, our challenges always feel big to us.
Today I want to embrace one of the traditions that have come to define Journeys Community.That tradition is the personal sharing that takes place here that can be so powerfully instructive to us all.
When Journeys was just an idea, when all of this was being envisioned, Harry and the others who worked with him to give shape to Journeys took instruction from the wonderfully healing organization, Alcoholics Anonymous.What they valued about AA was the tradition of sharing.
We are all fellow travelers on the life path and nothing rivals the value of the instruction that can come from a fellow traveler.And so in that spirit I share with you today. Read More