Just for Today

" Just for Today " offers 365 days of powerful reflections of a parent's unwavering love and unyielding hope in the face of her child's battle with drug addiction. People can and do recover May 10, 2008, my son and I had a horrible fight, I was at my enough, I didn’t want to live in dysfunction anymore so I gave my son an ultimatum, get into treatment or find someplace else to live. He decided to seek help, he made arrangements to go into treatment on May 11, 2008 (it was Mother’s Day).  Years later I found out that my son attempted to take his life the night before he was to leave for treatment. He left a suicide note and by the grace of God, I knew nothing about this because he survived his attempt. When he woke, he knew in that moment that he had to try one more time to release himself from the bondage of his addiction. I would like to share with you what my son wrote on his nine year birthday in recovery on May 11, 2017: " Nine years clean and sober today! I am blessed beyond words