Ordinary Grace

Most of recovery doesn't happen in dramatic moments.

It happens on a Tuesday. In the car on the way to work. Over coffee that's gone cold. In the pause before you pick up the phone or put down the drink. It happens in the ordinary.

In this third and final volume of the Grace Series, Ken Craig-Saunders walks with you through all thirty-four weeks of Ordinary Time-the longest, quietest, and most overlooked season of the Catholic liturgical year. And the season that looks most like real life in recovery.

Ordinary Grace offers 238 daily meditations, one for every day from the Baptism of the Lord through the Feast of Christ the King. Each day includes:

• A Scripture passage from the Gospel of Matthew
• A Recovery Lens connecting the reading to a specific Step
• A reflection written from the honest, lived experience of recovery
• A prayer for the day

Where Awaiting Grace explored the hope of Advent and Ashes to Easter traced the surrender of Lent, Ordinary Grace asks the harder question: What does grace look like when the drama is over and the daily work begins?

This is a book for the person who has been sober long enough to know that the real challenge isn't quitting-it's staying. It's for the Catholic who senses that the Twelve Steps and the sacramental life are saying the same thing in different languages. It's for anyone who has ever wondered whether God shows up on ordinary days, in ordinary ways, for ordinary people.

The answer, it turns out, is yes. Every single time.

The Grace Series: Awaiting Grace: An Advent Companion for the Recovering Heart Ashes to Easter: A Lenten Companion for the Recovering Heart Ordinary Grace: A Companion for the Recovering Heart