Marking Milestones

Recognizing and marking milestones (clean time in recovery) is a way to celebrate our sobriety and give hope to others who attend recovery meetings with us.  Milestone celebrations help us to remember how our lives were when we first turned away from our destructive lifestyle and sought God.  They also help us celebrate our new life with God in recovery and the peace it brings. 

We celebrate belly-button birthdays because we are thankful for another year of shared life with our family and friends.  We celebrate sobriety milestones to give thanks for God's lavish love and grace poured out on us when we turned our will and life over to His care.  God enabled us to see life with meaning and purpose.  How else could we remain sober for even one day, let alone months or years? 

Every day of sobriety is worth celebrating with others.  This is why we celebrate many time periods from one day to multiple years giving chips, key fobs, medallions, and cakes to mark the applicable occasion.  

Registering our clean date and preparing to mark the milestones as they come is one helpful tool in keeping us sober.  

Jesus looked at them intently and said, “Humanly speaking, it is impossible. But with God everything is possible.”  (Matthew 19:26 NLT)

Prayer:  Loving God, I thank You for this day of sobriety and each day linked to it.  You’ve been with me through thick and thin and You will never leave me nor forsake me.  I truly face each day with confidence because of Your unfailing love and care for me. Amen