Grace

 Stories about recovery from addiction are not really stories about success over failure.  That would be more a story of personal efforts, the hero overcoming the odds by their Herculean efforts to recover from addiction.  No, recovery is really a story about Grace, the free gift from a power that the person does not possess on their own.  It is an outside and an inside power.  It is not them but it is in them.  To recover is to discover this power.  I look at my life as a priest and realize that it is a story of grace, not my great holiness, that has kept me on the path of my vocation or gotten me back onto it when I might have drifted off the mark.  So if your life is one of grace accepted then let us start our day with GRATITUDE!