The thing about time, is that we just have so much of it.
Having been diagnosed with serious cancers, I had gone through that abrupt revelation of “running out of time.” In addiction, It’s as they say “time flys when your having fun.” Tme, under the influence, vanishes with nothing too show for it, but missed opportunities and warped families. If you’ve made the decision to “go back out,” after you have come into recovery, then you know exactly what I am talking about. At nearly every meeting someone is coming back in after years, sometimes decades of lost time. Many never return. Thank God I was able to learn that early in recovery!
I can’t afford to lose anymore, yet, even in sobriety, my stubborn, slow healing, alcoholic mind has cost me plenty. Yes indeed, we do a number on ourselves while we’re out there, and coming in ,there is so much we must learn but…
End the end, by God’s Grace, if we can gain recovery and trust in God, we can dodge the bitter end, and come into that life beyond our wildest dreams. Amen