A Prayer for Recovery from Drug Addiction

Father, the drug has taken more from me than I ever agreed to give. It promised relief and left me hollowed, chasing a feeling that keeps moving further away. My body aches for it even as my heart begs to be free of it.

I confess the lies I told to protect it, the people I hurt, the mornings I swore would be the last. I am not asking You to be impressed with me. I am asking You to meet me in the wreckage I made.

You do not flinch at the worst of me. You came for exactly this, for the sick who need a healer and not for the ones who think they are well.

So I bring You the craving in my bones and the fear that I cannot do this. Steady my hands when they shake. Send me a clinic, a counselor, a meeting, a brother who has walked out of this same pit, and give me the courage to actually walk through the door.

Carry me through withdrawal and through the long quiet that follows it. Be nearer to me than the substance ever was.

I lay this addiction down at Your feet, not because I have conquered it, but because You can. Rebuild what it tore down, one clean day at a time. Amen.