Blog for March 23rd, 2026
Possibly:
Possible: Able to be done or achieved: able to be or become; potential: Having as much or as little of a specified quality as can be achieved: That may exist or happen, but that is not certain or probable: Conceivable, Plausible, Imaginable, thinkable, believable, likely, potential.
Most every night now my husband and I watch an old re-run of a comedy cop show, Barney Miller, it is from the 70’s. He used to watch it and likes it, and I had never really watched it or paid attention to it. But now, we are on the sixth season, and I have become attached to some of the characters. Two of them, the captain and one of the detectives has a tendency to say, “that’s a possibility” or “it’s possible”, when the criminal, victim or suspect says something very bazar, it’s like they don’t want to discount anyone’s theories or ideas, at least not in front of them.
After six seasons it has really rubbed off on me. Instead of telling a person who believes in aliens and time travel they are crazy, he says, “it’s possible” on nearly every single episode. I would really like to talk to the writer of that show and ask why. I feel like the writer is a person who stays hopeful and objective. Also, open-minded and considering all sides of a matter. Or.. just has the captain say it to elude argument and to subdue the suspects. It works.
I too like to stay open minded to certain possibilities, especially if we are talking about the miracles and events that God can do. Like when He answers our prayers for healing, safety, health, provisions and relationships. The crazy thing is, that the day I surrendered to my disease of addiction, April 1, 1985, I was surrendering to the impossible. I mean, was it even possible for me to go a day without drugs? Was it possible to go a week? A month? And heaven forbid, a year? Of course, I didn’t think about any of that. I only had to do this for one day. One day at a time, what a terrific concept!
Nor did I contemplate the idea of having a happy, healthy, loving, trusting relationship with the man God had sent to me. That was indeed the impossible. And in my wildest dreams did I see myself graduating from college with a Masters Degree and teaching? No! How about raising my kids to become decent respectable members of society. Not to mention a grandson, my first and oldest grandchild that will be a full fledge medical doctor this May. 😊 He is amazing, some people would have said that it would be impossible for one of my grandchildren to become a doctor. In fact, all of my grandchildren are doing well for themselves. They are self-supporting and self-efficient. I’m proud of them all. Especially because they are caring, loving human beings.
Many said it was impossible for me and my husband to stay clean, even for a year. That was forty-one years ago and we’re still going. They said it was impossible for us to stay together, given our past and our addictions. Now that we have been together for Forty-five years, I would have to say that yes indeed, it is possible for two crazy, hung-up addicts to build a life of love, healing, good mental health and recovery together. Now that we are older, our kids and all but one of our grandkids are adults and doing well, we can relax and enjoy ourselves, take it easy, and reminisce about all the good times we’ve had since getting clean. We have beat the impossible odds and explored all the possibilities of what a clean life would be like and here we are. To this day, we do the impossible. But we don’t do it alone and on our own.
First and foremost, we have our Lord and Savior Jesus. Next, we have sponsors, friends in recovery, family who care about us and want to see us stay clean and achieve our goals and be healthy.
The other part of this story is all the other people in our lives that have been doing the impossible also and help us to do the same. Just hearing other people share in meetings lets me know it can be done, and we are not alone. And I see people all around the world who do the impossible. Staying clean and recovering against all odds. I love zoom meetings, that’s where I find out that people on the other side of the planet have the same kinds of problems, feelings, dreams and goals as us and they tell us how God and the program works for them. It amazes me.
Question of the Week: Are you too making the impossible possible?
