Extravagance

Are these extravagant promises? We think not. ~  Alcoholics Anonymous: the "Big Book" (Kindle Locations 1163-1164).

Without restraint, extravagance.
Spreading wealth with reckless abandon...
We come to rooms or recovery hungering,
thirsting, longing for an illusive dream,
a pot of gold with no rainbow in sight,
even within imagination. We come bedeviled.
Human relationships, emotional control,
misery, depression, gainful employment,
feeling useless, fearful, unhappy, unable to help
even those we care most about... Bedeviled.
Then, moving blindly through the steps,
just doing the next act shown us,
we stumble into a magic place,
a hidden hoard of gold, that rainbow's end
drowning in the extravagance of peace, self-respect,
freedom, happiness, serenity, the value of our past...
We find a cache of God's extravagance,
and know he planned forever our finding it.