Its been a while….
Hey Friends! I haven’t written in so long and it seems that is directly related to my life being a chaotic mess. You might think that not keeping up with my blog would be as a result of life being crazy; not having enough time, too much going on, and being in survival mode just…
10 Reasons for Marriage Counseling
“They’re in marriage counseling… I wonder what happened…” “Why do they need counseling? They seem so happy together!” We’ve all whispered some variation of those statements in gossip. If the dreaded words marriage counseling come up about a couple, our minds immediately fly to the negative. Counseling is for mending and fixing. What major event…
Worthy of Redemption
For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost. Luke 19:10 Every person is lost and God sent Jesus to save us. Isn’t that amazing? For every moment of your life you felt uneasy and unsure, there has always been an answer. There is not a single person who will be…
Without a Doubt
Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Matthew 11:28 There is no prerequisite to find Jesus. There is no deep cave or mountain top you have to arrive at to earn your place is His hand. When life is heavy and hard, it is easy and sensible…
Character for Your Calling
God is within her, she will not fall;God will help her at break of day. Psalm 46:5 My interpretation and the author’s, Carolanne Milijavak, interpretation were not the same. She elaborates on how the worth we place on ourselves is contingent on our worldly conquers. How often times when we hear we are loved by God, we…
Set Free
See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 1 John 3:1 This was the first Bible verse I tried to interpret in many years.…
Odd(ly) Enough
That best friend who saved me also sent me to this book. It was exactly what I needed to start my fearless and faithful new life. Every morning, I follow the instructions laid out in the front of the book; Read the Bible verse and reflect on the meaning, read the devotional and find its…
Limping Child
I’m telling you, it’s never a dull moment in this house… Wednesday evening of this week was pure chaos. I ended up working a little bit later than usual and didn’t get home until around 6:45. John also had to grab my nephew, who goes to Goddard with Owen, to help my sister out. No…
The Curse of Overconfidence
My best friend once told me “Your confidence in all things kills me. You have zero hesitation. Your “girl, I got you” knows no bounds.” Coming from her, it was no surprise. She is the ultimate “planner.” Because she so thoroughly weighs every pro and con to her decisions, even as small as changing laundry…
I was found
Through my 2nd and 3rd steps of AA, I came to believe in a God of my understand. I gave him human features. I gave him personality traits. I gave him characteristics that I could experience with my senses if I were to ever come face to face with him. I believed I was at…
Step 4
Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. Once you arrived at step 4, you are ready to take action. In order to make a complete life change, I needed to understand what drove me here to rock bottom to begin with. The only way to do this was to take a searching fearless…
Step 3
Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him. My life seemed to have gotten a lot worse since getting sober. I was half in half out with my relationship with God, and I needed to make a decision. Handing my will and my…
Goodbye 2019
Anyone else happy 2019 is over? Same. I am like REALLY happy. 2019 brought a lot of happiness and tons of great things. It also brought a lot of pain. For whatever reason, majority of that pain was brought within the last quarter. From September to December, it felt like one thing after another came…
Life gets worse before it gets better
Alcoholism is a 3 part disease – In the book of Alcoholics Anonymous, “The Doctors Letter,” describes how alcoholics have a physical allergy to alcohol. We react differently than normal drinkers. Once we have the taste on our lips, we develop the “phenomenon of craving” for more. One turns to twelve before we realize what…
Step 2
Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity Here is the word most of us feel some sort of uncomfortableness saying: God It’s a small word with unlimited meaning and impossible explanation. Some have a somewhat ideal understanding of their beliefs in Him, some deny Him all together, but…
Step 1
We admitted we were powerless over alcohol – that our lives had become unmanageable I remember sitting in the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous in my first few meetings thinking “ok step 1, done, step 2, done, step 3, done.” I was checking boxes on a to-do list, confused as to why this stuff took months…
The Edge-of-the-Cliff Point
If you have read My Story, you have read the compilation of all signs throughout my life pointing me to believe I am an alcoholic. For every alcoholic, there is an event, or a coming-to, that’s called the “jumping-off point.” Its not necessarily your first meeting, or even within your first year. As I also…
Since 2015…
I’ve told you a tiny bit about me and our love story. Now I want to talk about our life together. After getting married in August of 2015, we found out a mere 8 weeks later we were expecting our first baby. We spent our first month of marriage not even living together. I had…
Our Love Story
Have you seen those beautifully hand crafted signs that display a couple’s big moment history? “Met: 20__, First date: 20__, He asked 20__, said “I do” 20__” Yeah, that’s not us. John and I have an unconventional love story. It took a long time to find our way. We had a lot of missed opportunities…
My Story
Hi, I’m Erin and I am an alcoholic. My sobriety date is August 9, 2019 and what an adventure sobriety has been in just 3+ short months. My “story” from my first day of sobriety to now is drastically different. Sobriety is like an onion; you peel a layer, find some stuff, peel that, find…
A Life Made Simple 