I spoke earlier up top about how I would
wear my AA pendant around my neck all
the time and no one as of yet has noticed
it until today.
My husband and I were out and about this
morning doing our weekly shopping at Walmart,
and Lowes. While browsing around the isles
a voice began talking to me saying something
then i acknowledged him, a store employee.
He smiled and said he liked my necklace and
I emmediately grabed it and smiled. Then he
showed one of those rubber recovery bracelets
turned upside down on his arm under his sleeve
to acknowledge he was also in recovery.
He seemed so excited to recognize someone
in recovery wearing a recovery symbol like
he was. We then chit chatted a bite about
recovery as he shared a name of someone
he was related to with lots of recovery and
has been a recovery councilor for many yrs.
After I heard this mans name, i told him that
he was also one of my councilors in rehab back
in 1990 and that I knew him.
Later as I sat in the car thinking about what I
had just encountered, i was simply astounded
and amazed at how recovery works in my life.
Here I was a few days early sharing something
that has never happened and today it did. Unbelievable.
I guess i'll never know why this guys path and
mine crossed today and how we both have
someone else in recovery in common. Id have
to say that it is extremely rare for something
like that to happen to me if not at all.
So I have to believe that my HP had a hand
in this encounter today.
I absolutely love recovery.
