No condemnation, no reprimand, no argument. The love of the father for his child

 “No condemnation, no reprimand, no argument. The love of the father for his child.”

What The Ten Stages did for me was to implode all of my conviction about myself. I was not only wrong about the nature of my drinking—I was wrong about the nature of myself. I had thought I was a victim of my depravity, but it turned out that my depravity was the gift that had forced me to come home. the stages explained this to me better than anyone: my child within wasn’t angry. Worse than that: my child within didn’t even understand anger.

I had thought that I was a desperado, coming in from the fields, begging for a handout. It turned out that I was a prince, and my father saw me from a long way off.