In Luke 15:17 it states, When he came to his senses, he said, How many of my father’s hired servants have food to spare, and here I am starving to death! 

This is a favorite verse for me. When it comes to recovery, coming to ourselves is the turning point to recovery for so many of us. The road is often hard and harder, but we do eventually hit what we call our bottom. At the end of us, we are out of resources, ideas, willfulness, and manipulation.

It is painful and freeing to realize we cannot do this and that what we are doing just plain doesn’t work anymore. This is the powerless moment that the Twelve Steps talk about. We come to the end of our life with our addiction. When you come to your senses, you start to see your addiction and your life differently, and with a little more clarity.