I am really feeling grateful for my life today. And I’m feeling especially grateful for the time that I spent with my sponsor up in Atlanta and everything that has followed.
Friday night I got to take one of my favorite people, Jill, the friend who let me detox at her house, out for dinner at my favorite restaurant, just to thank her for helping to save my life and get caught up. Dinner was amazing. Dessert was breathtaking. The company was as dear to me as life and I left feeling revived; body, mind and spirit.
Saturday a friend with only 14 days sober suggested we go to McCall for the day. Now, McCall is hardly a day trip so I called my parents and asked if we could use the cabin they have there. We headed up, drove an extra 30 miles or so to go to Bergdorf Hot Springs and enjoyed the waters. We headed back to the cabin, grilled a couple or rib eyes, went to an AA meeting, and talked recovery. We were having trouble finding the meeting location so I pulled into a grocery store and walked in and asked the bag boy where the Nazarene church on pine street was. He looked at me and asked, “Are you going to the 8 o’clock?” Then he told us that he had a year and 2 days sober that day; a little indication from HP that we were on the right track and we were meant to be where we were.
On the way home this morning we continued our conversation about how to do recovery, the barriers to recovering, the problems we encounter and the lies we tell ourselves that take us back out. We talked about the solution to those problems and about finding whatever formula works.
A few minutes ago another friend called to say that she is sponsor shopping and asked if I thought my own sponsor might take her on. A little twinge of pride set it. “What? I’m not good enough,” I thought to myself. But I shared some information and I passed along the phone number. We’ll see what happens.
I feel like I’m back in “the stream of life” again, finally.
I’m dedicating Patty Griffin’s very first love song to myself. I hope you enjoy it.
Tags: Gratitude, promises, relationships
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smooch! love, love, love this!
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gratitude is always a gentle place to land..
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It sounds great Chris. Glad that you are back on track and enjoying sobriety.
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Chris, I haven’t heard (read) you sounding this good in a while. I’m thrilled for you.
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thanks for the post.
It just goes to show the HP works in mysterious ways. I’m 17 years in and I can’t even begin to count the amount of times, in the middle of nearly nowhere, I’ve ‘accidentally’ met other sober people and had impromptu meetings.
You are on the right track…remain open and pass it on to others!
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