One day at a time.
Last Monday I had 7000 days of sobriety. Still counting the days after nineteen years. Not counting the years, that’s too scary. We don’t have the past and the future has not happened. Staying in sobriety today it is all we have.
My husband, Dick, creates a little number for me every day on a small piece of paper that I carry in my pocket. It represents the number of days I have been sober. This is the most precious piece of jewelry I own and wear every day that you’d never notice unless you ask to see it.
Dick has made these numbers for me since day one. What a beautiful commitment from him to me. And, me to him.
Accountability.
I know that some alcoholics in recovery may not have that kind of support, but we do have each other on this path of sobriety—alcoholics together staying sober one day at a time—talking to each other, keeping each other accountable. We help each other make our sobriety the number one priority in our lives.
If I don’t have my sobriety, I don’t have anything that is precious in my life.
You help me, by telling me and telling others your number of days of sobriety. We all need to hear it.You earn it each day, just by showing up for yourself and others.
Sober.
Restored.
Today.
“Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.”
Psalm 90:12
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