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Sobriety is Every Day
Whatever the addiction, it is a daily admission of powerlessness and embracing of humility.
I’ve been on a journey of sobriety, not from drinking or disordered eating, or even co-dependence. I’m admitting each day that I’m powerless over ambition, over power, over myself.
“I appeal to you therefore, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may discern what is the will of God — what is good and acceptable and perfect.
For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of yourself more highly than you ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.”Romans 12:1–3
Every time I saw the word “sober” I thought it meant tee-totaling, or being part of a 12-step accountability group. It takes enormous courage to submit to those steps, to participate authentically in the healing communities of AA, AlAnon, CA, NA, OA, CODA, and so on. But as I looked at my life, I thought I was doing pretty well in the area of the illicit substances.
Glennon Doyle describes the most important thing in her life as her sobriety. Yeah, getting free…
