Lost Souls

Some people have asked me why I refer to the lost souls with the Castle of hope this is my answer.

Now for the reason for the lost souls. I feel that we have a soul which is who we really are.  Our body is a vehicle for our soul while we are on earth.  The brain according to some had two main parts.  The old brain which controls our body and contains our instincts.  The new brain I feel is our soul and it uses reason to control the instincts.
 
When we become addicted to drugs or a behavior our soul has lost control.  We are functioning on instinct instead of reason.  Usually we have for some reason lost self esteem or given up on life.  We may have come to the end of our rope and the soul could not come up with the solution.
 
In effect we become lost souls. We have to look inside ourselves and find ourselves.  When I deal with addicts I try to build up their self esteem.  I try to give them a reason to say no to the drugs and regain their control.  This is why I quit getting drunk.  It is also why when I found myself losing control again I realized what was happening and I quit drinking completely over 10 years ago.
 
No matter how bad things got I did not want to drink.  I was able to find good in everything that went wrong.  I feel that my life has been spent to bring me to the point I am at today.  I do not have any material wants.  I only want to help others.
 
The addicts, the homeless and those in prison have also been lost by society.  The homeless I feel are our invisible poor.  They are not even a statistic. Society warehouses the prisoners and forgets about them.  It is like all of these people fell through the cracks and have been lost by society.
 
I am not afraid of death because I do not believe that we die.  Our body dies but we (our souls) live on.
 
http://www.geocities.com/leegaylord/dad.html will give you an idea of why I feel as I do.  It is about how my Dad saved my life 3 years after he passed away.
 
Those in prison change while in prison as we change on the outside as life goes on.  I am not the same person I was 5 years ago.  In the 60's and 70's I was a hawk on the Vietnam War and a staunch Republican.  Now I am for the ideals of the Republican Party but I feel that the party has lost its way because of the so called religious right and the silent majority which became the loud minority.
 
I am an economic conservative, a political moderate and a social liberal.  Before the end of June I was for the death penalty and now I am against it.  I can not see any logical reason for it and I can see many reasons against it.
 
One reason I am against it is that if the person did do the crime by the time of the execution the prisoner is a different person than the one that committed the crime. 
 
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