Hey everyone, welcome to episode 16.5  of Two Drunks With a Mic; the podcast where we share our past so that others might have a future. If you haven’t already, please subscribe to our podcast and share with everyone you know. We rely on you, our listeners, to help us get the word out about the show so we can get it in front of people that may be helped by it. And you just never know where, or even who, those folks might be.

This week we had it planned that Luke, Randy, and I were gonna get together and record an episode. We were able to get Luke some new equipment to help with the sound quality on his end and were excited to put it to use. Well, as it often does, life has a way of taking its own path and we weren’t able to make that happen.

So in an effort to get out an episode, I started writing something to record. I got to the end, read it over, and decided not to record it. Not that it wasn’t valuable, or even pretty good. The reason I didn’t was because the subject matter, I felt, deserved much more attention than I was able to give it in the short period of time I had taken to write it. I didn’t want to put out a half-baked set of insights on a topic that is as important as the one I had written about.

But I also didn’t want to leave you all hanging, either. We are shooting to get that episode recorded next week and hopefully have it out on Friday. The topic is hopefully going to be the great deception of self reliance…

Now maybe you’re understanding why I didn’t want to tackle it by myself in a 10 or 15 minute episode.Way, way too deep

But wanting this to be a little more than just a quick check in to let you all know we are still here and kind of what is going on, I want to give you something to consider.

So before I go, and in light of what we hope to discuss next week, I want to leave you all with a question that I hope you might consider thinking about over the next week or so. It may be a challenge for some. I know it was for me for quite some time.

Obviously I don’t know where everyone stands with the idea of God, or what your particular foundation is on which you’ve planted your recovery, but my question is this:  Is what you are relying on to sustain you in your recovery strong enough to comfort you when you find yourself alone in the dark? Is it capable of bringing you back from the greatest depths of despair when all else has abandoned you?

And one last thought. We know that we have a large section of our listeners that aren’t in recovery because they are not addicts. But to these folks I would offer the same challenge when it simply comes down to your life.

At the end of it all, is the foundation on which you’ve built your life strong enough to withstand eternity.

Until next time,

God bless