The Cup She Raised at the Meeting
In September 2019, Maria Gonzalez stood up at a Thursday night recovery meeting in a church basement in Tucson, Arizona. Her hands trembled as she...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Psalm 116:12-13, 15-18.
In September 2019, Maria Gonzalez stood up at a Thursday night recovery meeting in a church basement in Tucson, Arizona. Her hands trembled as she held a small Styrofoam cup of coffee — the same kind she'd held at her first meeting seven years earlier, when she could barely string a sentence together. Back then, she'd lost custody of her two daughters.…
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