Like the web of the dream catcher, we are connected to all things within the circle of life. 
Light moves like a rainbow, as radiation from the sun, the stars, the moon and the lightening into the back of our eye to be interpreted. We hear the sound of clear water moving over the rocks of the river. We smell the scent of the pines and taste the morning mist. We feel the icy chill of a winter morning or the heat of the summer sun. We react to every emotional experience received through the five senses, with hundreds of biochemical responses transmitted from the mid-brain and down the spinal column into every organ of the body, mind and spirit. We react to all things seen, heard, smelled, tasted and touched.
We inhale oxygen along with molecules of other elements and exhale carbon dioxide, which enters into the leaves and is changed by the miracle of photosynthesis and returned back into the environment as oxygen once again. The breath of our lives is the breath of Creation. The oxygen atoms have gone inside us and fed our cells and tissues and produced the Co2 waste product that is recycled out and through thousands of processes in the natural world, mingling into the meditative cycles of the wilderness. Every movement of our hands and all other parts of the body affect the environment with the living energy that cannot be recreated by man, the dance of life eternal. Science has managed to clone living beings but not create new original life like the work of the divine purpose of Creation. Human beings living, acting, reacting and evolving are a supernatural event. Supernatural means that part of the natural world that cannot be explained by the scientific laws of physics. Human life and death are a mystery within the scientific community. They cannot be explained.
Recovery from addictions to alcohol and drugs is similar to photosynthesis in the fact that it is a phenomenon of powerful change in the natural world. The spiritual connection created during the process of recovery ranks among the annals of quantum physics. It’s an extraordinary leap beyond our obsessions into the place of spiritual freedom. It’s a journey from despair and hopelessness to hope and lasting joy. Hate and loneliness are changed into love and fellowship. Disease and physical addiction become healed and we are made whole by a spiritual process that cannot be clearly defined or analyzed by any language on earth. It can be promised but not defined because it is supernatural by nature.
Like the golden reflection of the sun on green leaves on a summer afternoon, we radiate the love and wholeness of our recovery to others and new life is born among us. We are the rich soil of the forest floor that promises new life to the dying rotting hopelessness of the drunkard. We become the seeds of the re-creation of faith from which sprout the Great Law of the Great Peace, the promise of our elders.
We learn that with every breath we become more connected to every atom in the Great Sky and beyond. As we breathe in and out we touch the stars through the invisible thread of all Creation. We become responsible for preserving the natural world in a respectful way and honoring every living thing within the laws of our Creator. We feel the heartbeat of the earth and are transformed. We honor the dignity of all humans and all other living beings weather or not we understand them. We become the integrity of our own recovery and bit by bit we heal ourselves and one another. Aho!
