Musicbob
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My Tagline:
Onward and upward, with both feet on the ground!
My Interests:
Prayer, Meditation, God, Movies, Music, Travel, Gardening, Art, Health, Recovery, Money, Pets, Bicycling, fitness, gardening and landscaping, home improvements, music, music, music, my three dachshunds, my friends, DJing, reading, writing, AA mtgs., cooking, family, friends, travel, adventure, LIFE
My Favorite Books, Authors, Musicians, Movies, Preachers, TV shows, etc:
SERMON ON THE MOUNT by Emmet Fox, Gone With the Wind, Movies- Forrest Gump, The Sound of Music, and Isadora. TV-Reba, Nick at Nite, Friends, Sitcoms. Musicians- Beatles, Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, David Lam, Jim Brickman, many more
Who Inspires Me:
Emmet Fox
My organizations and affiliations:
Alchoholics Anonymous
My favorite spiritual activities:
Prayer, Reading, Emmet Fox, Meditation, Chanting
Who I'm praying for:
The World
What is your current spiritual mood?:
Peaceful
What's your spiritual type?:
Active Spiritual Seeker - I'm spiritual but turned off by organized religion.
About Me
Hello, My name is Bob. I am a musician (violinist mainly) I have been on a very active spiritual journey for 9 yrs. As a child, I chose to join a Methodist church, attending regularly, sang in the choir and embraced God as much as a child could. It was always a positive experience. I switched to an EUB church within walking distance from home at age 12- another positive experience becoming an even more involved kid, singing in the choir, attending the Youth Fellowship mtgs., Sunday evening activities, loving all the adults and other kids. I was also in Boy Scouts and DeMolay (at age 14). DeMolay is a Masonic fostered, all male group based on great spiritual values and principles. Life seemed wonderful and it was! At age 17, wishing to be more a part of the "cool" group, I experimented with alchohol. Within 4 months time, I dropped all these spiritual based activities and started my path into darkness very gradually and by age 20, refuted the existence of a God. Drink and substance gradually increased its grip on me though I did return to spirituality via Buddhism at age 35, but after 5 yrs. of practice, by deepening hangovers and alchohol abuse made chanting and maintaining a live altar near impossible (you really need some wherewithal to chant properly). While I abused the Buddhist beliefs to justify my drinking, the downward spiral sped up into more darkness and at age 47, found myself isolated with windows continually darkened, obsessed with drinking & pot, coming very close to losing my musical ability, let alone social contacts and health problems. God did intervene with a firm grip on my collar and led me through a serious, but unsuccessful suicide attempt, a detox, and quickly into the rooms of AA. I picked back up my active spirituality, and all that I almost lost very quickly. My recovery has been on a constant climb upward (and outward) for 9 yrs. I have joined this website as another step in widening my spiritual journey. Alignment with the will of God is my daily quest- I pray, I read, I help others, and I have a great life with the same challenges as everyone else, but with God, I walk through it all with constant faith and near constant serenity. That's my story and I'm stickin' to it. I love life!
My Basics
Gender: Male
Occupation: Musician
Relationship Status: Single
Faiths:
Spiritual but not religious
Faith Description: Spiritual
Musicbob's Journal
A CALL TO BELIEF.NET SUBSCRIBERS
Posted: Jul 19, 2008 8:25 AM
TO ANY AND ALL BELIEF.NET MEMBERS WHO HAVE READ A BOOK TITLED: TRUSTFUL SURRENDER TO DIVINE PROVIDENCE written by Father Jean Baptist... (more)
Posted: Jul 6, 2008 6:56 AM
I feel compelled to write something in my journal today, but have too much swirling around in my head to light on a topic. A topic... (more)
Posted: Jun 22, 2008 6:27 AM
Here I am, God Knows. I had a meeting with sponsor Jeff yesterday in which he got to the heart of the matter. I need to jump on... (more)
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