St. Patrick's Day

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!  I read an article on St.Patrick this afternoon and he was really a quite a historical character.  Apparently he was captured and enslaved by an Irish clan for many years before he managed to escape and return to Britain.  Instead of spending the rest of his life bitter and resentful he returned to Ireland to minister and generally be a great guy.  Obviously, he was sainted  after all.  Legend has it he also rid Ireland of snakes but it is agreed that the snakes probably represented ill will and resentment and not actual snakes. So St. Patrick's Day is also about celebrating freedom from whatever holds you in bondage, forgiving others and yourself and moving on.
More and more every day I am beginning to realize that I have been soul-sick and have spent a lot of time and energy trying to medicate that state or at least try to forget about it.  Drugs and alcohol filled that void at one time but they are never the cure, in fact you end up losing more and more of your soul as you sink deeper into that hole.  Maybe that void is what Catholicism labeled "Original Sin".  Maybe the fall from grace meant we all just forgot we have the spark of the Divine within us and it is just the human condition to feel that loss somewhere deep inside.  We all search for it in some way shape or form some of us just get more lost or mislead than others.  Sorry to get all philosphical but a full day of groups and meetings gets my mind working overtime.  :>
As you can see I have way too much time on my hands, it is time to kick the job search up another few notches or go back to school.