Some people living in one day at a time recovery understand the reality of our nature being the writer of our songs. The insecure fear influenced nature of our egos tends to build up the need and the desire to be certain and secure in its own existence telling us I was, I am, and I will be in control of my own fate and my own destiny thus I will be safe, happy, joyous and free. This is the reality of feeling the need to be in control when life seems to be out of control. It’s the reality of the overly depressive, frightened and angry songs that we write. This is the result of being human. Some call it self-centered fear. In all truth it is the result of trauma and human insecurity. Recovering people can struggle. Struggle is a part of growth and maturation and maturation introduces us to yesterday, today and tomorrow. We need to make peace with this. Richard Rohr has said that we get to know ourselves at the cost of our own innocence. It takes most of us a life-time to understand this and in doing so we meet human reality. We all need. That’s it. We all need security. It’s an absolute truth. Without it we will struggle. That’s why we need each other and in this we might find the reality of our songs change. That is the joy of kinship and belonging. We’re not alone. There is much to be said about that. It’s a gift. Peace.
