11/22/2024
November is gratitude month….Gratitude day 22.
Those of you who know me best, know what today means to me.
All those years ago, believing i was hopeless, helpless and unlovable. Shaking and sweating, needing alcohol just to make it through the next hour, day, week ..really the next minute. Sitting in the center of a self imposed crisis I could no longer postpone or evade,I thought my life was over.
But it wasn't. I had a singular moment, when gripped by something bigger than me, which brought me hope I could change. I noticed the goodness and love that pervades the universe, which is constantly being shown by the people around us. I saw that by being willing to throw all of that which I thought I knew away, I could become teachable to that which I did not. I realized that I could not only recover from my alcoholism, but I could help my fellow travelers to recover hope in their lives as well!!! I have. I have been privileged to help so many people back from the brink, that in this action I have been rewarded the one thing my life had been missing up until that fateful day. Purpose.
So during this month of giving thanks, and personal rebirth for me………….
All I really want to say is THANK YOU to all of those people who have trusted me to help them recover. Because without you all , I would not be the man I am today. ( if you try to call to catch up today please don't take it personally if I don't immediately reply, I'm doing what I do and working with a guy, then heading to the rescue mission to try to bring some hope to someone who really needs it . So a better way to do a thanks us by helping someone else feel like they actually matter again)
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