A 140-day devotional for women rebuilding a sober life one honest morning at a time — a daily place to reflect, write, and pray beside the God who never left.

For Women in Recovery — Strength for Sobriety. Each day sits beside a quoted line from a Christian writer across the centuries — kept in their own voice, with a quiet word-gloss underneath so the older language opens rather than closes.

• A daily page for the morning after the craving, when staying clean costs more than anyone sees.
• Five honest minutes a day — no slogans, just you, this page, and the God who stayed.
• For the woman in recovery who is learning that sober and loved can be true on the same day.

Seven stages across 140 days: Stage 1 — God Opens the Day · Stage 2 — Letting Go Without Force · Stage 3 — Following Him Step by Step · Stage 4 — Kept Going by God — The Middle · Stage 5 — Closer to Him · Stage 6 — The Turn · Stage 7 — Belonging to Him.

Anchored by seven small images you will half-recognise from the start: a dawn, open hands, a lamp, a mountain, a vine, a stream, an open door. One quiet picture per stage, gently signposting the journey home.

Inside these pages you will also find:

• Seven things on every day's page — an Opening line. A Reflect question. A Rest cue for the body. A Today's Focus. A Touch line. A quoted Scripture or Christian writer with a word-gloss. A closing Meditation. The same seven elements, every day, for 140 days.
• Older language, opened in real time — thy becomes your. Thee becomes you. Every classic line — Scripture in older translation, devotional prose from earlier centuries — carries a small plain-English gloss directly underneath. Nothing is left for the reader to puzzle out.
• Real names, never anonymous — every quoted line is attributed — drawn from a curated corpus of Christian writers across the centuries and chosen to fit each journal's shape. The voices are named, the sources are known, and the corpus is wider than any single tradition.
• Liturgical interludes between stages — between the seven sections, the journal slows. A Commentary. A Poem. A Prayer for This Season. A closing Reflection. Real rhythm — not page numbers.
• Borrowed prayers, and yours — selected prayers from saints and faithful authors carry you forward, while A Prayer for This Season pages hold space for the words that are only yours to write.
• One poem per section — short, unhurried passages between stages — small enough to memorise, deep enough to keep returning to.

Sample prompt: "What is one small thing you stayed sober for today, even when the old voice told you it would not matter?"

Most devotionals push you to do more. This one settles you into what is already true.

You know the morning of an anniversary — the one no one is sending cards for, the one only you and a few people know to count? Underneath is a quieter question — about whether the person you are becoming is the same person you have spent so long fighting to keep alive. This journal sits with that quieter question. Five honest minutes a day, before the meeting or after the meeting or instead of the meeting. The work you have done is not erased. It is the ground a different kind of standing begins from.

A daily page for the voice that calls you by a different name. Written for the woman God is calling beloved. Open to day one.