All in a Day's Work by Chris S.
I haven’t blogged anything for a while. I have had some pretty good ideas and jotted them down, but they just didn’t come out. So I came home from work today and was doing my usual meditation/power nap when it dawned on me what a good day it was today. And I’m not talking weather.
I woke up this morning and got my tea. I went back into my bedroom and got on my knees said my prayers and read my usual morning meditation pages. I went out and even told my roommate it was going to be a good day. Yes, I was filled with optimism.
I showed up at work and did my usual shopping and deliveries for the day. Then I got to drive a resident to the airport that was going home on pass. She’d been here for 2 ½ months and was going home to see her kids. She was excited. What excited me was that she had made plans to stay in a routine that she had learned from being here. She was going to go to two meetings a day and stay active in the program of recovery.
Later I was back in the office and a former resident showed up. She had gone home for Easter and made it through the holiday. She was back to say hello. She told me she needed to find a new sponsor. I gave her a number of a friend in AA who has about 12 years clean and sober.
I was driving a new resident back to his house that I had picked up last week. Unfortunately though, he had to go to detox before he was admitted into our program. This is nothing unusual. It was for his best interest. He already looked different from the day I picked him up. Only been here a couple of days and he was telling me this was one of his best decisions he had ever made. I thought back to my early sobriety. I didn’t know I had made a good decision until a few months later when the miracles started happening.
I was sent to pick up our teach residents at school. Which is a nice drive through the hills of Laguna. When they got in one of them told me he just got a 94% on his essay he turned in. He was so happy that it made me happy to be one of the first to hear the good news.
Good days like this don’t always happen, but they do happen more than bad ones. Funny how I get a thrill seeing people having a good time and realizing they couldn’t have done any of this without sobriety on their side.
I just thought I would report a day at work.
- Chris S.
