A new year.
This started more than a decade ago.
While growing up my step daughter had a friend Viki that spent a lot of time at our home. Home for her was an alcoholic mother and a long string of her mothers boyfriends that were varying shades of crap. Viki at times just lived at our house. She is a very sweet girl and I took it upon myself to try to look after her.
She got pregnant and married young. Six kids and a decade later her and her beau (JW) do the best they can, and I try to smooth over bumps that come their way as I can.
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I met Ken through the church. The priest had been trying to help him but Ken is an end stage alcoholic. Ken wanted to join the Orthodox Church and the priest said that if he could string together one month of sobriety he would be made a catechcumen (beginner) But in three years he just could not master even a month sober.
The moment the Priest found out I was successful in AA he introduced us and I became his sponsor. I started by giving him a big book and a note book and directions to make a list of every time he tried to quit but couldn't and a list of every time he got drunk when he shouldn't have.
Kens wife waited to join the Church herself because she wanted the whole family (three kids) to be brought into the Church together.
I talked to Ken sunday afternoon and he related that he cried as he was brought into the Church sunday morning with his family.
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I wasn't at church sunday morning because saturday night about 9 pm I got a call.
It was Viki's phone but wasn't her, it was her husband JW. He was distraught. He had been drinking too much too often and all his efforts to stop had failed. He was in tears with the shame. I missed Kens ceremony because I took JW to his first meeting sunday morning.
Sent him home with a big book and a notebook with instructions to make a list of every time he tried to quit but couldn't and a list of every time he he got drunk when he shouldn't have.
2012 is off to a roaring start.
This started more than a decade ago.
While growing up my step daughter had a friend Viki that spent a lot of time at our home. Home for her was an alcoholic mother and a long string of her mothers boyfriends that were varying shades of crap. Viki at times just lived at our house. She is a very sweet girl and I took it upon myself to try to look after her.
She got pregnant and married young. Six kids and a decade later her and her beau (JW) do the best they can, and I try to smooth over bumps that come their way as I can.
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I met Ken through the church. The priest had been trying to help him but Ken is an end stage alcoholic. Ken wanted to join the Orthodox Church and the priest said that if he could string together one month of sobriety he would be made a catechcumen (beginner) But in three years he just could not master even a month sober.
The moment the Priest found out I was successful in AA he introduced us and I became his sponsor. I started by giving him a big book and a note book and directions to make a list of every time he tried to quit but couldn't and a list of every time he got drunk when he shouldn't have.
Kens wife waited to join the Church herself because she wanted the whole family (three kids) to be brought into the Church together.
I talked to Ken sunday afternoon and he related that he cried as he was brought into the Church sunday morning with his family.
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I wasn't at church sunday morning because saturday night about 9 pm I got a call.
It was Viki's phone but wasn't her, it was her husband JW. He was distraught. He had been drinking too much too often and all his efforts to stop had failed. He was in tears with the shame. I missed Kens ceremony because I took JW to his first meeting sunday morning.
Sent him home with a big book and a notebook with instructions to make a list of every time he tried to quit but couldn't and a list of every time he he got drunk when he shouldn't have.
2012 is off to a roaring start.
