Welcome! My name is Daniel. My sober date is June 10th, 2024, 10:45pm. I discovered at the beginning of my sober journey that hashtagsoberlife.com was not owned by anyone so I snatched it up believing that someday a vision for what it should be would come to me.

Right now it just holds my blog. I have been writing throughout my sobriety and I was encouraged by a friend to post them.

"As Jesus passed by, He saw a man who had been blind from birth. And his disciples asked Him, 'Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he would be born blind?' Jesus answered, 'It was neither that this man sinned, nor his parents; but it was so that the works of God might be displayed in him." John 9:1-3

It is easy to fall into the trap of feeling sorry for ourselves when going through adversity and wondering why tragedy, addiction, brokenness, loss etc. happens to us. I often wonder why I can't be "normal" and have just 1 drink, why I my life is unmanageable with alcohol. That often has led to me feeling sorry for myself. There is but one answer:

But it was so that the works of God might be displayed in me!