Miracles Happen

Six and half years later and I am still clean and sober and living happy, joyous, and free. Rather than picking up where I last left off in my story I am going to work from today backwards because it will probably be easier to remember that way!!

As I write this I am sitting in the room I have been staying in for the last three months while I finish my final semester of university. I have been in school since September 2009. First I took my Child and Youth Care Diploma at the college and then I transferred into the Addictions Counseling program at the university. I am currently finishing that undergraduate degree with my senior internship at a treatment center in the lower mainland.

Yes, for those of you who have been following my posts, you will recognize that I am back in my home town or better said, my old stomping grounds. I have only been back here a total of five times since I left in June of 2007. As the Promises tell us in the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, we will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do ourselves......

I have been able to freely drive through old neighborhoods without any fear or anxiety. I have been able to stand face to face with my ex-husband and feel at complete peace. I have been able to have short conversations with my ex-husband and know that I have forgiven him for all the terrible things he did to me. That my friends, is a miracle all in its own!

The biggest miracle is the miracle of my little granddaughter Haylee. She was born last year on November 18 and what a joy she brings to my heart. These last three months have been bearable because I have had an opportunity to get to know my granddaughter. She is my oldest son's little girl. This time away from home being in the lower mainland has given me an opportunity to mend the relationships with my by sons. We haven't spent a lot of time together since I have been here but nonetheless, we are healing. It is just about time for me to journey back to Lethbridge which means saying goodbye.

Tomorrow is yet to come. Yesterday was Haylee's first birthday party. Today I got to spend some quality time with my little princess and Tomorrow, well, tomorrow will work itself out.

Night all!