Prayers for the Recovering Heart

There comes a morning in recovery when you want to pray and cannot find a single word. This book is for that morning. Prayers for the Recovering Heart holds one hundred plainspoken prayers for every season of sobriety — the desperate early days, the pink-cloud weeks, the flat months, the strong years, the hard nights.

Inside you will find morning prayers to start the day honest, evening prayers to end it grateful, and urgent short-fused prayers for the worst twenty minutes of a craving. There are confession prayers that always end in mercy, and gratitude prayers, because thankfulness is armor. Every prayer is written the way a real person talks to God — no churchy language, no performance.

Think of them as scaffolding: they hold the shape of an honest conversation with God until the words become yours. Written one year sober at a kitchen table in Claremont, New Hampshire — because borrowing words to talk to God is not cheating. It is one of the oldest things God's people do.

Keep it on the nightstand. When your own words run out, start here.