My wife ran across this article the other day about a newly Blessed in the Catholic Church who worked with addicts, the homeless, and other marginalized people: Blessed Sandra Sabattini, the first bride-to-be beatified in the Catholic Church | Catholic News Agency

Her last words, written before her death (from being hit by a car) were inspirational, and a good lesson for all of us addicts and alcoholics (everyone, really, but they’re especially poignant for us):

“It’s not mine, this life that is developing, that is beating by a regular breath that is not mine, that is enlivened by a peaceful day that is not mine. There is nothing in this world that is yours.”

“Realize, Sandra!”  “It is all a gift on which the ‘Giver’ can intervene when and how he wants. Take care of the gift given to you, make it more beautiful and full for when the time comes.”

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