The River Is Waiting

by Wally Lamb

When you’re an active alcoholic, you give up everything for one thing. But when you commit to sobriety, you give up one thing for everything.

The closest I get to believing in a higher power is when I look out at the ocean while I’m surf casting. See something that’s much bigger than I am. Something that’s been here a lot longer than me and is going to be here long after I’m gone.