Identity: From Addict to Child of God
A journey through the three identities recovery gave me — addict, recovering addict, and finally child of God in recovery — and how God’s naming in Isaiah 43 reshaped my purpose, belonging, and destiny.
A journey through the three identities recovery gave me — addict, recovering addict, and finally child of God in recovery — and how God’s naming in Isaiah 43 reshaped my purpose, belonging, and destiny.
This reflection examines creative integrity and intellectual honesty in an age shaped by AI. It explores how to maintain ownership of your voice, honor your lived experience, and use AI as a thinking partner without letting it replace the hard‑won clarity that comes from recovery, faith, and identity.
Rereading Jerry Pournelle and Robert Heinlein after decades away became more than nostalgia. A conversation about science fiction chronology turned into a reflection on AI as a thinking partner, recovery, faith, identity, and how old books meet us differently when we have changed.
This introduction opens a series of reflections on faith, identity, recovery, and rediscovery — shaped through honest conversations with AI. What began as a question about rereading Jerry Pournelle became a deeper exploration of who we are, how we change, and how we find our voice again.
One day a man met God in a dream… and was profoundly changed