24 Hours a Day, July 19.
Meditation for the Day
To God, a miracle of change in a person’s life is only a natural happening. But it is a natural happening operated by spiritual forces. There is no miracle in personalities too marvelous to be an everyday happening. But miracles happen only to those who are fully guided and strengthened by God. Marvelous changes in people’s natures happen so simply, and yet they are free from all other agencies than the grace of God. But these miracles have been prepared for by days and months of longing for something better. They are always accompanied by a real desire to conquer self and to surrender one’s life to God.
Prayer for the Day
I pray that I may expect miracles in the lives of people. I pray that I may be used to help people change.
Put aside any difficulty you have with the word or concept “God”. I find this description of how surrender is accompanied by grace to effect the naturally occurring ‘miracles’ of change to come close to helping me explain myself. I have seen it happen in myself and in others, and I’ve struggled to verbalize this phenomenon.
The miracle sometimes happens all at once, at the very beginning of sobriety, and sometimes it operates more subtly, when a person simply puts into practice the discipline necessary to stay dry, sober and content.
Phrasing it as a natural occurrence that is manifested with the help of that strange energy “grace” gives me hope that it can happen for anyone. And it does happen every day, to many different addicts. We are blessed 
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