Kate Loving Shenk

Dear God/ess, This weekend was a weekend of birth and rebirth, as well as near death and the promise of death. Alcoholism raised its ugly denial diseased persona as it does with almost everyone who lives in the world today. Alcoholism is the new epidemic, a modern day Leprosy, a study in how not to live–or die.

Specifically, our daughter in law has dangerously been teetering on the edge between health and ill-health,  and seeing her drink again at great risk to her longevity, has broken the hearts of those near and dear to her.

We have led the horse to water many times, but she simply refuses to drink.

So once again, we ask all of you who read these prayers, to simply pray for the end of the scourge upon so many families, and upon you and me. Alcoholism is the disease of relapse and denial. It is a mystery to me as to why this is so.

From my own experience of alcoholism, as a recovering alcoholic, I have lightened my expectations of what others should or should not do, generally, and specifically, have let go of all alcoholics everywhere. When our friend, John, died of chronic and acute alcoholism in Tomoso’s arms, our family changed. We did not think we would have to continue and  experience the Russian Roulette game these people play with their lives. Yet we must and we will with grace and equanimity,

Om Peace Amen

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After those years of blackout alcoholic drinking, I got a GED and went back to school, got nursing degrees, and thought I was keeping my drinking under control, the great alcoholic delusion.

But the truth of it was, I was a binge drinker and suffered from 4-6 drunks every year with maintenance drinking in between for 30 years.

I put the cork back in the bottle for 6-9 months at a time, but always returned to my drinking behaviors, each time a little closer to self-destructive consequences.

I never got a DUI and was never arrested for any other reason because of alcohol, but plenty of my alcoholic friends were.

One day I knew I had enough and found the answers as to how to stay sober, one day at a time.

Finally, I have reached a level of emotional sobriety that Bill W. discusses in his wonderful essay entitled “Emotional Sobriety,” which says quite simply that dependence on people, places or things is not the way of an alcoholic who Truly is in recovery.

This is a very important ingredient of my sobriety today.

Kate L. S.
02/02/2002

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