Today was a really great day.

It was hard.

I had to surrender several times.

It wasn't easy and I didn't have time to think about it but I just had to resist fighting and managing.

I got to rearrange my schedule and take a longer lunch and go to a meeting at noon. I am grateful for my job. The topic was step three out of the 12 x 12. I got to re-form my conception of what it means to turn my will and my life over to the care of God. I was able to share about it and hear what God needed me to hear.

After work I got to go speak at a treatment center about my family in recovery at family night. I have never been so grateful in my life. I got choked up when I tried to speak about how my wife's recovery helped protect her and my son from me.

A few people asked questions and I didn't get too caught up in the details. In the brief moments of solitude that I had today I practiced telling my storied and this really helped when it came time to do it. I surrendered and prayed before I went there when I was in the parking garage after work.

Tonight I had a lot of phone calls to get caught up on and I didn't want to make them. I had to surrender again and remember that helping others is the foundation stone of my recovery.

what a day.