{"id":8432,"date":"2021-07-01T11:33:18","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T16:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rai.tip.temporary.site\/musings\/?p=8432"},"modified":"2025-12-24T08:17:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T14:17:17","slug":"grace-through-the-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/splanescorner.us\/musings\/grace-through-the-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Grace Through the Years"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\n<div class=\"et_pb_section_0 et_pb_section et_section_regular et_flex_section\">\r\n\r\n<div class=\"et_pb_row_0 et_pb_row et_flex_row\">\r\n\r\n<div class=\"et_pb_column_0 et_pb_column et-last-child et_flex_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough et_flex_column_24_24 et_flex_column_24_24_tablet et_flex_column_24_24_phone\">\r\n\r\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_0 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_flex_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><p>Last November was 34 years sober for me. I was thinking yesterday about what started me on the road to sobriety. My brother was arrested for DUI, and asked me to go get some things for him from his apartment. He had a copy of \"THE BIG BOOK,\" from Alcoholics Anonymous, so I took that and read it, thinking it would help me understand his issue with alcohol.<\/p>\n<p>The story that really spoke to me was about a man who didn't realize he was an alcoholic until he retired. He drank all his life, but only on weekends. He worked, kept his job, lived a responsible life. But then when he retired, and had so much time on his hands, he was bored and stared drinking all the time, every day. This is was led him to realize he was an alcoholic and he got sober.<\/p>\n<p>That's what I did. I have always worked, so I was in denial, because I wasn't lying drunk in a gutter somewhere. I had this preconceived idea of what an alcoholic was.<\/p>\n<p>So now I am retired, and not working anymore, and I see how that could have happened to me. Amazing how God works in our lives. It is just interesting to look back and see what started me on my journey and now seeing how the redemption God gave me in Jesus freed me of what could have been. I am forever grateful for all that He has done and is doing for me, even now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Titus 3:5<\/strong><br \/><em>Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-8432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-musings","tag-grace"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/splanescorner.us\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/real-centaury-3495189_1280.jpg?fit=1280%2C853&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8a3GA-2c0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8392,"url":"https:\/\/splanescorner.us\/musings\/amazing-grace-and-mercy\/","url_meta":{"origin":8432,"position":0},"title":"Amazing Grace and Mercy","author":"Lea Splane","date":"April 7, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Musings&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Musings","link":"https:\/\/splanescorner.us\/musings\/category\/musings\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"landscape","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/splanescorner.us\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/landscape-5120591_1280.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/splanescorner.us\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/landscape-5120591_1280.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/splanescorner.us\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/landscape-5120591_1280.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/splanescorner.us\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/landscape-5120591_1280.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/splanescorner.us\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/landscape-5120591_1280.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":8590,"url":"https:\/\/splanescorner.us\/musings\/waking-to-a-new-beginning\/","url_meta":{"origin":8432,"position":1},"title":"Waking to a New Beginning","author":"Lea Splane","date":"July 6, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Musings&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Musings","link":"https:\/\/splanescorner.us\/musings\/category\/musings\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"nature, flower, plant","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/splanescorner.us\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/3243718-scaled.jpg?fit=1200%2C799&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/splanescorner.us\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/3243718-scaled.jpg?fit=1200%2C799&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/splanescorner.us\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/3243718-scaled.jpg?fit=1200%2C799&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/splanescorner.us\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/3243718-scaled.jpg?fit=1200%2C799&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/splanescorner.us\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/3243718-scaled.jpg?fit=1200%2C799&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":308,"url":"https:\/\/splanescorner.us\/musings\/dandylynes\/","url_meta":{"origin":8432,"position":2},"title":"Dandylynes","author":"Lea Splane","date":"May 24, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Dandylynes - that's how my husband pronounces dandelions. 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