A Prayer for Recovery from Alcohol

Lord, the bottle has been louder than every voice that loves me, and tonight I am finally tired of obeying it. My body aches with the wanting, my hands are not steady, and I am afraid of what these next days without it will feel like.

I confess I let it become the thing I ran to for every grief and every celebration, until it was the only language I had left. I poured my life into a glass and watched it drain away.

So I turn from it to You, with shaking hands and an honest heart.

Steady me through the hours when my whole body screams for one more drink. Surround me with people who will sit with me in the craving and not hand me the glass. Replace the thing that numbed me with something that actually heals, Your presence in the empty space it leaves behind.

You are the One who restores my soul and leads me beside still waters. Lead me there, to a peace I have been trying to pour out of a bottle all along.

I set the glass down and put my open hands in Yours instead. Carry me through the dry, hard days into a life I can feel again. Amen.