I wrote in the I AM Bible study that I am an alcoholic and drug addict who gave a devotion to the alcohol like Jezebel gave to Baal. Through AA I began to realize there was a God, and, through my daughter, I discovered there was a Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.  I have walked now for some 33 years with the Lord. I cannot say that I have always loved living in his transformative power.  I have learned that often, the only way I grow and grow up in the Lord is when the need and the pain have brought me to the end of my rope, (a holy place to the Lord a friend used to say), and I am powerless to do anything for myself. Then I am ready to hang onto him for dear life!  To be an alcoholic and drug addict, caught in the vice grip of addiction as Kim says, crawling around at the bottom of a bird cage is the only place from which I would have called out for the Lord and his transforming power.  But once I knew, experienced that the judgment at the Cross, the transforming power, was mercy, forgiveness, saving grace and agape love, what can I say? Like Mary at the tomb, I call out Rabboni  (teacher.) Teach me, Lord, your beautiful ways.

Whether you are one who is running into his marvelous light, as the song says, or walking gingerly and a bit fearfully like me, welcome to Transformed in Him. Kim and I are excited to be blogging about the twelve steps of AA which taught me how to live. We welcome your comments and sharing and your journeying with us through the year. I graduated from Colorado University and have worked most of my life in the real estate business in Denver, Colorado. I attended law school for awhile but did not graduate from it. But it was not a total loss. I met my wonderful husband, Charles there, who did graduate from law school and has been an attorney for all these many years, 47 years of marriage, to be exact. We now reside in the Colorado foothills. In the worst of my drinking Charles left for about a year but returned, and we have been together ever since.

I write novels, poetry, screenplays and still work in real estate property management.  I have written three published works Getting to Know God, Mourning Glory, a book written with a friend Lorelle Britton, telling our stories about grief and dealing with it, an historical novel, Dalliance, published by Syracuse University Press. I am now working on a Civil War novel about one of the true characters and heroes at the Battle of Shiloh who made an appearance in Dalliance.