About Three Short Spiritual Stories Vol 1 I have been a volunteer with my local county detention center, local county drug court, and most recently our local county Veteran's Treatment Court, where I am a group leader and mentor. I also speak to children's groups. Due to the diverse population, speakers are asked not to get too religious in their presentations. I understand their reasoning, HOWEVER, I have NO doubt about who delivered me from my storm I selected these stories for this book to thank God and give Him All the glory. I hope that you will enjoy reading them and I hope you will...

About My Dark Room One day as I was thanking God for where He has brought me from, I began wondering where I could have been if I hadn't decided to follow the crowd and chose to indulge in drugs. I must admit that I began regretting that choice, but again I chose not to get -stuck- there in my thinking. Instead, I chose to examine the WHY and the WHAT that enticed me into making that choice that locked me away for 27 years. I remembered the old saying, -fools rush in where wise men fear to go- captivated my thinking. My Dark Room is my metaphoric interpretation of a possible consequence when...

About Finding "IT" For the past seven years, I have volunteered with my local county drug court program, my county Veteran's Treatment program, and my county and neighboring county detention centers. In the winter of 2015, the program director for drug court came to me about a different type of support group. Too many people were relapsing, and she was concerned. She asked me to consider facilitating a relapse recovery group. I had led several different groups through the years, but I knew by the very nature of this group that it was probably going to be difficult. I have believed for MANY,...