June 28 - Faithful Persistence

Small things, done consistently, become the whole thing. In this solo episode, Corey walks through what daily faithfulness actually looks like — and why he's a little scared of who he'd be without it. Lasting impact is built through persistence. What begins small can grow into something powerful when it is carried forward with determination. Corey opens with his morning: out of bed onto his knees, a prayer before anything else, coffee on a timer, readings and writing, a prayer book of people he prays for, and the Litany of Humility his sponsor gave him a couple weeks back. Then Big Book pages 85–88 — the promises of the daily practice, the warning that it's easy to let up and rest on our laurels, and the line he keeps coming back to: what we really have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition. Fit spiritual condition, he says — and how do you get fit? You work out. You condition. Every day. He's honest about the cost of being the guy who studies the literature this hard — a woman once cussed him out in a business meeting and called him a nerd — and weaves in a thoughtful, real-time reckoning with anonymity and not over-representing the program. Galatians 6:9 anchors it: let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. Page 100's both you and the new man must walk day by day in the path of spiritual progress — it was never one through eleven alone; it's you and someone else, every day. The promise on page 100 lands the close: when we look back, the things that came to us when we put ourselves in God's hands were better than anything we could have planned. Consistency over time creates results that cannot be rushed. Christian recovery | 12-step faith | sobriety devotional | persistence | daily practice | morning routine | spiritual condition | daily reprieve | addiction recovery | AA and faith | sober living Daily entries at dailyripples.com — [email protected] Daily Ripples connects recovery principles with the life of faith. New episodes every day.