7000 Twenty-four Hours

It is a bit of trivia but still a milestone. Thanks to both a number of websites and MS Excel, I know that today is 7,000 days of sobriety! If you keep at it one day at a time pretty soon there are a lot of those 24-hour units added up! With that in mind I share the following quote I got from Inward/Outward:

Recovery is facing and embracing all the pain in our lives, so that we will gain maximum growth: learning lessons, gaining power and looking for ways to help others do the same. Those are the goals of recovery, a destiny that is beyond what any person could achieve alone. It takes other people’s loving involvement in order to develop our maturity, and it takes God’s redemption to bring something good out of our pain. God is working in everything for our good - so that we will have something extraordinary to give to others.

Source: The Life Model by E. James Wilder
as posted on Inward/Outward