Tuesday, March 14, 2023
Today’s Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:
A Higher Purpose
One of my friends from the National Guard invited me to join her in Alaska for the summer. I left Oregon, sold everything, and went up there for the summer. Here I had this brand-new bachelor’s degree, and I ended up being her babysitter. It wasn’t what I expected or needed at that time in my life.
So I went back to Oregon, got employment. I found that my services were needed in the Job Corps. I wasn’t the person who did the program, but I was the person who took the kids to meetings. This form of service work for youth contributed to my sobriety both personally and professionally.
Listening to others share their stories in sobriety is a form of service work – for them, for me, for all of us.
— Gayle C., U.S. Army National Guard, 1976–1980/1984
Hazelden Foundation
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