Believe

TRUTH

Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy, who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

Psalm 103:2-5

REFLECTION

Renewal sounds so good when we sober up.

That’s exactly what I wanted. A little rest. A little clearing of the mind. A little renewal of my spirit.

A recharge.

And I looked around at some of the clear-eyed old timers to see pillars of sobriety and hope and what appeared to be well-tended lives.

Let me dry out a bit, work some steps and that could be me in a few years.

And I started to listen.

These were just people, and invariably the ones whose stories resonated the most and whose sobriety and faith I most wanted to grasp onto pointed toward God as their common solution.

Somehow this was my childhood faith made practical and being lived out in real life.

Here was the evidence I unwittingly began to doubt in my years of addiction. That God is loving and active.

He does forgive and heal and redeem.

I began to believe this could be possible for me. Through fellowship and friendship and listening, my childish faith began to bud in a place I’d have never dreamed: the rooms of recovery.

God, renew my mind.

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NEXT

When you’re ready, here are some tools for you:

1. Book List (amazon link)
   Some of my favorite reads related to recovery and/or wrestling with faith.

2. 4th Step Guide (free download)
   A PDF with instructions and worksheets for a thorough 4th step. Straight from the Big Book. Fearlessness not included.

3. 12-Step Christianity (YouTube)
   My thoughts on the parallels between discipleship and sponsorship.

KEEP LEANING FORWARD

Cheers, Eamonn
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