The Ennet House living room: Gately, Day, Lenz (p. 272)
they just have to pray daily for acceptance and the brass danglers to move forward through the grief and loss, to wait for time to harden the scab.
Context
Ferocious Francis's counsel on grieving the lost Substance, as Gately carries it. Addiction-recovery's bereavement material, but the temporal mechanism is the point of the advice: time is the only medicine on offer, and the discipline is enduring its passage while it works.