Last night I watched an episode of the program "Life on Mars". It occured to me that the character is in a sort of spiritual experience in which he has been brought back to the time when he turned away from his faith.

Most people, myself included must face a life (or sanity) threatening crisis before we become open-minded enough to make a thorough investigation of the spiritual life.

Sam is going through that crisis.

In this experience...
He is revisiting his childhood.
He is faced with questions of right and wrong and good and evil.
He must guide people to make better choices because he comes from another place/time in which he has a better understanding.
He is seeing that the influences that led him away from his faith were not as they seemed because of his own limited perception.

I believe he is undergoing a conversion back to faith and a relationship with God.

When I went through my re-conversion I had to go back through my life and de-construct my walk away from God and all the things that led to that.

It took me back to the days when I was on my knees by my bedside as a boy in 1973 and I still believed.

I had to get back to that point and staTrt over with all my questions and dilemmas with God and allow my faith to be re-formed.

Thank God for second chances.

I got to go to the noon meeting, we read the end of Gutter Bravado.

Tonight I went to the Friday night meeting but I didn't want to go. I didn't think anyone was going to show up. I thought about the program and my choice to embrace the spiritual life like a man resurrected.

One guy showed up at the meeting. We got to talk about things he really needed to talk about. Another guy came in and talked to too. The other guy stayed and talked to me about what he needed to talk about.

It was just as it was supposed to be.

Thanks be to God for a great day.