04/18/2026
“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
courage to change the things I can,
and wisdom to know the difference.
Amen
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Today I celebrate 38 years of sobriety.
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These last seven years have been the roughest seasons of my recovery, but I made it through without picking up. When life got heavy, when losses came, and when I felt tested in ways I couldn’t explain, I had to do something I hadn’t always done the same way before, I had to fight for my mind and remember one steady truth: God has me.
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Because no matter what we’re going through, we have to keep that foundation in our hearts. God didn’t bring us this far to drop us now. If it wasn’t for Him, if it wasn’t for His protection, His guidance, and His strength when mine ran out, there’s no question in my mind I would have relapsed.
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Today, I feel a kind of freedom I can’t fully put into words. This anniversary is meaningful to me in a special way because it’s the first time in my recovery that I truly had to remember and hold on through the fight, through the tears, through the losses and I made it to the other side.
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So yes, today I celebrate me, but I celebrate the Grace that carried me. I celebrate the work, the surrender, My Heavenly Father, My Home Teacher, Brother Reinhard Boerner. My family, my daughter, Michelle Holland, my sons, Mike Sevigny, Rick Sevigny. My brothers, Kevin Pepper, John Olson, my sister, Terri Pepper. My close friends, Neil Thomson, My Sponser😘Julia Jewelz, my junior sponser🥰Alexis Hermsen-Carreras, Lisa Morin, Libby Somoza, Claude Harris and Miriam Viani; they were always there if and when I needed them, and the decision to keep going one day at a time.
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If you’re in a hard season today, hear this: you’re not here by accident. Don’t quit. Don’t trade your freedom for a moment of relief. God has you and He’s already working on the other side for you too.
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God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
courage to change the things I can,
and wisdom to know the difference.
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Amen.