Newsletter for June 7th, 2024

I have been watching a lot of podcasts lately. Shawn Ryan’s interviews with Tucker Carlson and Jordan Peterson I loved and learned so much. And Tucker’s interview with the President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, was incredible! 

What I found so interesting from these three men was that God was the most important thing to all of them. All three gave God the credit for where they are today. God is everything to them! 

In the Bible it says

Matthew 19:26

“Jesus looked at them and said, ‘With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.’”

In AA from the book Alcoholics Anonymous, page 53 

“When we became alcoholics, crushed by a self-imposed crisis we could not postpone or evade, we had to fearlessly face the proposition that either God is everything or else He is nothing. God either is, or He isn't. What was our choice to be? I heard that either “God is everything or he is nothing”

When we make the decision to rely on ourselves or other people to cure us or make us happy, we ourselves and the other people fall short! We are human! We make mistakes….

These days I am finding it more and more interesting how true it is that we can’t rely completely on any person! All humans are fallible.  

For example as you all know I am a conservative Catholic woman and I just started going back to the Catholic Church and priests are not all the same and do not all believe the same things. Naively I thought that they did, I thought that every Catholic priest was conservative and believed that our Pope was kind off his rocker! But, I was WRONG!!!!

Here is an example of this: I met a friar when I was in Medjugorje and he is from Florida. I thought meeting this man of God was a sign that YES I am on the right path! He is from my area in South Florida and I met him thousands of miles away from home in Bosnia. Is this ironic or a God wink? I of course thought it was a sign from God! 

I was over the moon!!!!I had a sign!!! I was so excited! I got the Friars number and made a plan to meet in Florida.

BTW was I wrong in that all priests had the same beliefs, in fact quite the contrary! 

When meeting the friar again here in Florida I learned that he has completely opposite views than I have! He was adamant about his stance! We sat on opposite sides of the aisle! 

Now did that make me run away again from the Catholic Church? No it did not because in reality God is not about the building or the person giving the sermon. It is about believing in God and trusting that God has control, not any human standing in front of you professing something that you know in your heart not to be true! 

God gives human beings the ability to make choices! 

I can only judge what is good for me and what is bad for me. That may be different than what another believes but I have to go with what works for me at my core! It isn’t my job to make others happy or convince people to believe the same way I do….but it is my job to be honest with myself! At times this is difficult because there is so much noise! 

My belief is that we all have to decipher what is right and wrong in our hearts and be true to that! As my son Henry always says, “You do you boo boo”. 

Find your path and what works for you and hold that sacred! 

Know that God loves you no matter what and that you are never alone. 

Keep getting busy living sober! 

Have a great weekend

XO

Elizabeth