While reading Isaiah 28 the other day something profound caught my attention. In this chapter, God is speaking to leaders—people who were supposed to be watching, guiding, protecting, and helping others. But instead, they had become consumed with themselves. They were overindulging in wine, chasing their own pleasures, and becoming so spiritually lost their lens became foggy. And God called them out. Not because He wanted to destroy them, but because he was reminding them who they are. ...

I recently had one of those little moments with my kids that started as an annoyance and ended as a lesson from God. I was at the market with my girls, and they were playing together in the aisles. Nothing terrible was happening. They weren’t doing anything wrong. They were just being kids. But I found myself getting frustrated. I wanted them to stop. I wanted them to be aware of the people around them. I worried they were in someone’s way. I wondered if people were looking at me...

In my first year of sobriety, I had all this extra time on my hands. I no longer carried the mental load of figuring out how to balance alcohol and life because alcohol was no longer part of my life. So, I forced myself to try new hobbies. I tried everything—from sticker books to crocheting and even indoor gardening. It was April. I was three months sober and desperately waiting for spring to arrive. Winter in New England is cold, dreadful, and gray. Being cooped up for months on end while...