Somewhere along the line, in casual conversation
someone recounted a comment made by an alcoholic struggling to get
sober. This person, discussing her drinking in a rather defiant and belligerent fashion, said, “If God didn’t want me to drink, He’d knock the
glass out of my hand!” One of us jokingly commented that we hoped
whoever was present had supplied the obviously perfect retort, “He will;
all you have to do is loosen your grip.” Somehow that metaphor caught
the simplicity and the complexity, the ease and the difficulty, the “holding on” and “being held” that are a part of
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