Sublime

all major religions deal centrally with the basic themes I have set forth here: we are created for love and freedom, addiction hinders us, and grace is necessary for salvation.

If there had still been joy in my drinking or even a remote chance of the joy returning, I would not have stopped drinking when I did.

Because once you puncture the membrane of sobriety, the phenomenon of craving kicks in, and you’re off to the races one more time.

“Another thing I counted on was continuing my Thursday nights with Joyce, but when I showed up at our usual watering hole, he let me know that my present predicament put me off-limits for the time being because I was so inundated by my dilemma that my lachrymose disposition watered down his Bushmills. “It’s true that drinking ratcheted up my anguis

Koinonia, or belonging

Practicing radical honesty, especially with his wife, was the foundation of his ongoing recovery.

As philosopher and theologian Kent Dunnington wrote, “Persons with severe addictions are among those contemporary prophets that we ignore to our own demise, for they show us who we truly are.”