So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

‭‭2 Timothy‬ ‭2‬:‭22

Part of the discomfort of sober living is from leaving behind the attitudes, actions and allowances of what has defined us.

We’ve treated higher ideals as though they were the callings of monks and those not fortunate enough to live in the real world.

Somehow, stringing together a logic that works exactly nowhere except in our minds, we have discounted the fruits of the spirit of all their sweetness.

This is foolish. Most of us mostly know this most of the time. If we consider things honestly.

But our attitude toward goodness is strangely sour.

Of course, the fruits of wrong attitudes are wrong actions. As we scuttle along with a broken perspective, we bend to it more easily every time. Attitude is notoriously difficult to contain. It’ll come out—good or bad.

We are given an allowance daily. No one has more or less.

Whether we choose to manifest our own and turn that offering sideways is up to us.

We can certainly make the most of it by dwelling in and on the things that build up rather than tear down.

What if we change our perspective on the pursuit of righteousness? What if we choose to view this as an infinite calling that will renew, restore and remake us daily?

To step from the drunk world into the sober world is an acknowledgment of powerlessness, and to begin living daily is an acceptance of the eternal help that has always been there.

God, give me courage to change my attitude.