Article October 21, 1985 Issue

Healing alcoholism

WILLIAM B. BURR

There was a time when I reached the point of drinking many of my lunches and dinners. I was at that state of alcoholism where I had become ineffective in my life. And I had to make an important decision. It was necessary for me to develop, through prayer, a sincere desire definitely to stop drinking. I had to find my answer to loneliness, fear, lack of self-confidence, in God—not alcohol. I discovered that there was no halfway position in this decision. I was well aware that I could not quit drinking through my own willpower; I needed an understanding of God and of the power of His will.

Through prayer as taught in Christian Science, I found that God had never left me; He was right there all the time. And with God's determining, loving help, I quit drinking.

I am grateful to God for this healing, which happened over twenty years ago. And I write this piece with the hope that others will prove, along with me, that complete recovery is possible. We have God's assurance in the Bible: "I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten."^{Joel 2:25.}

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