Today I celebrated 36 years of sobriety from alcohol and drugs. I am so very grateful for the Father's boundless and immeasurable love, a Father who doesn't quench smoldering wicks, nor throw away bruised reeds! I am so very grateful for the powerful grace of Jesus, a grace that has radically transformed my life, a grace that forgave me, saved me and vouchsafed for me eternal life! I am so very grateful for the Holy Spirit who has so faithfully guided me, counseled me, kept me and empowered me through each day--both when I was paying attention and when I wasn't--who like a wild river in a springtime flood has drawn me out into the depths where my feet no longer touch the ground, carried along wherever the wild river currents will take me.