Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023
Today’s Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:
Walking the Path Together
When my sponsor died after a heart transplant, I found another guy I really liked. He was a military warrant officer with about four years’ sobriety. I barely had a year. We started going to daily meetings and did a formal Step study together – the best thing I’ve ever done.
We were best friends for thirty-four years, until he died. When I retired from the military, I went to work for the government and was able to hire him. We’d ride to work and have a meeting on the way. What a man. I used to tell him, “You know, every man is my teacher. Some teach me what to do. You’ve taught me a lot about what not to do.”
He used to tell me, “You know, the deal works, but not all the dealers do. Not all the people in the program work the program.” He worked the program each and every day. We knew everything about each other, and the hardest thing I ever had to do was to bury that sponsor after thirty-four years. But I’m so thankful that his lessons live on.
Today I treasure those friends, past and present, I’ve met on the road to recovery.
— Mike F., U.S. Navy, 1959–1965/1972–1990
Hazelden Foundation
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