I'm not in recovery. I am free.

When the Holy Spirit gives you that nudge to lay down alcohol it’s because He has something FOR YOU. And that thing is not fear.

Whether you're scrolling through the Instagram soberverse or familiar with a traditional method of "recovery," you've probably seen the following message: If you're not working at recovery, you're going to relapse.

I saw a post recently that went a step further and stopped me in my tracks. It said, and I am slightly paragraphing, “Living a sober life is like teetering on the edge of the abyss, afraid at any minute you’re going to fall to certain death.”

That doesn’t sound like freedom to me. That sounds a lot like fear.

It doesn’t have to be this way.

I don’t feel like I’m teetering on the edge of an abyss. I don’t live in fear of drinking again. I have no desire to drink. I am not "actively “working a recovery program”, and if I didn’t do what I do as a writer and ministry founder- I wouldn’t ever actually think about alcohol. It holds no power or significance in my life.

I know…