Blog for April 27th, 2026
The Next Step!
Our week started out with our grandson still here, he is adorable and I love him so much. He was a big help to us while he was here. I hated to take him back to his sister. We had zoomed the day or so before and they all talked about their issues. We talked a little more once we got to their house and all is well; I just hope and pray that the next steps in his little journey will be all about wise choices and doing the right thing. By the next morning, I was missing him a lot. Yet, I think he is better off there, because I am getting too old to keep raising teenagers and dealing with the experimentation of pot and all the hormonal changes of a teenager.
Just before we left to take our grandson home, the auto body place called and said they were done painting my husband’s car, his Twenty-nine Model A Ford and It looks great! So, we went to go get it and when I paid the final payment, I found out that two of his sponsee’s paid a thousand dollars towards the paint job. I was like wow! Who does that? All I can say is that I do believe they really love him, a lot! They say that they have so much gratitude for him and all he’s done to help them over the years. They are always grateful to work the next step with him.
So, we went and got the car, he got it started up and drove it home and was thrilled, he’s been showing off pictures all over social media and texting to friends and family, it does look great, I’m happy about it too! But it’s not quite done, there are the next few more steps to do before we get to enter it in a car show.
I got to see my son for just a bit when we were leaving to come back home, he was on his way to work. It was good to see him. I love him very much too. I am hoping and praying that since he is clean, he will step up and help with his son a bit more. I think he needs a dad more than ever right now. My grandson wants a job, and when I took him to a local community center to check out the basketball courts, gym and all that – the girl offered him a job. Wow, that was like a God shot. However, as bad as he wanted it, he still had not turned in the application, nearly a week later. Humm, I don’t know what you’re thinking, but I sure know what I’m thinking. Usually, the next step to receiving a job application is to fill it out and turn it in.
After we got back home we just sort of chilled. I had big plans to finish the deck and do this and that, but I just couldn’t find the gumption. I do keep up with my basic day-to-day stuff, like my job, cooking dinner, meetings and all that, but not much extra. Of course, the fifty mile an hour winds have been the deterrent from working on things outside. Like my husband’s Twenty-nine Model A Ford, he is anxious to get it all finished of course.
I had the privilege of working steps with a couple of sponsee’s this week, steps eight for one and step ten for another. I love all the steps, but step ten is a favorite, and eleven. The maintenance steps they call them. I am also trying to coordinate a simple luncheon with just my sponsees for a goodbye lunch of a sponsee that is moving across the country. I will greatly miss her, but thank goodness for zoom, texting and phones.
As far as my next steps, well, first of all, I am on a deep dive with step eleven, I love it. Praying only for the knowledge of God’s will for and – get this- the power to carry it out! How cool is that? But I truly need that in order to learn to trust God with my next steps; Which is getting my house in order, letting go of a lot of stuff and moving on with my goals, dreams and desires, it’s about time. I keep letting life get in the way and it’s time to take the next steps for sure.
I feel like as long as we are trying, moving forward with our dreams and goals, like my writing and my husband with his Model A, we can live in a more connected, creative and spiritual manner. We have been so blessed in our life of recovery together, like with his two sponsees paying on his paint job, so many other blessings that it very difficult to express. So, then my next steps are to continue staying clean and working a program, trusting God and always looking for the next step that I need to take on this journey called life.
Question of the Week: What’s your next step?
