Helping Others Help Themselves

Lea has gone to meetings with me for over a year.  We average just over a meeting a day.  She rarely shares in meetings and does not talk much with people after meetings except for after the meetings at the Alano Club with the other smokers.  She does get coffee for the meetings if the secretary has not already done so.

Last Thursday at the business meeting, Lea volunteered to co-secretary the meeting with Brittany.  This will work out well for both of them.  Brittany is also in early recovery.  They both need service work to help them get more involved in the program.  Lea, even more so than most of us, needs to expand her social horizons.

Tonight we made Toll House cookies with white chocolate chips and pecans.  That was fun…and filling.

Lea has 70 days today and will have been on methadone for 11 months on Wednesday.  Her life is dramatically different for the better than how it was a year ago.  Last week she got a call inviting her to go use drugs with a cocaine dealer and she chose to not do that.  That is a god-given miracle.  It is definitely new behavior.

Her next to projects are to learn how to crochet and to get help with her cyclic chronic pain.  Sandy gave her some tips on buying a starter kit and suggested making baby blankets for premies.  Lea loves babies, so this should work out well.

I have invested a lot of time and resources into helping Lea.  Only god knows what will happen to her learn term recovery.  Right now, she is doing really well.  It feels good to have helped someone else make such progress in getting her life together.  She has done a lot of positive work in the right direction to make this all happen. 

I am grateful for the opportunity to be of service to others and watch the progress they are making in their lives.  Helping others in and find recovery is the best thing I have done in my life.