I love this picture...It was given to me when I first joined this site last January by "POWERWAVE," a member.......I just found it last night after sharing it with another friend here; it just stuck in my mind and heart ...... Originally it had a sub-title about being in God's presence---like a "theophany/burning bush/overwhelming shekinah glory kind of thing......but I see it in a different way now---A way of "presence" of that POWER all around us, whatever it may be....

I heard a priest/hospital chaplain pray the other day, "Help us in our work not so much to look 'up to God' as to look across to the one we are serving as God"............Just think of that.....really seeing 'the best of our Higher Power' in those we serve and those who serve us---even those who are the 'least."

Sobriety, inner healing, slow transformation for me is seeing that power and presence in everything and everyone around me---not 'pantheism," not 'paganism,' simply that miraculous presence in ongoing orchestrated events on a daily basis all around us, IN SPITE OF OURSELVES.....that's it.....it's not about us, but about that powerful presence flowing in, around, and through us.....

I'm simply sharing, as so many of you do, from what happened to me this morning at work, a "miraculous' ordering of simple events waaaaaay outside my control or actions, in spite of myself........

I also like the phrase that our Higher Power doesn't ask us for our ability or inability, but for our availability.....

Thanks to so many of you being that very presence to so many here, to me, and others around you as you make yourselves available.....

peace and hope,

Ken / prodigalreturned