July 16th, 1981

Late night telephone call to Joanne. She’s had a bad few days, anger and drink signals. I tell her that this pain is a necessary part of recovery. I tell her that this signifies a healing and that her life is being cared for by a greater power. In telling her what I know to be true– my own belief brightens and surges. I am sitting here now filled with an enormous sense of well-being and trust and love. The loneliness I have been nursing like a wound for days dissipates like mist in the shadow of this Higher Power.