Don W

Sometimes I need to step back and say thanks. Recovery can consume so much time and thoughts. I would like to take a moment to thank SR and all those that bring it to me. I'm sure there are other help sites but, there could never be a better one. I love how you've developed the ability to grow along with us. There have been many that have come to SR. Some have stayed some have left. The one constant is you've been here. I have a sister, Shirley, that always told me that in recovery we need structure and consistency, you provide me with both. Don W

Ann

The beautiful thing about this place, Don, is that we each bring something for each other. It's all about sharing our recovery, regardless of what path brought us here, and about learning from each other as we walk together.

I'm grateful, too, for the house that Jon built, the one with the door always open and the candle in the window for those yet to come.

Hugs
Ann

Don W

Keep watching Ann, I'll light a candle for you when I get home. Don W

Gabe

Yeah, I'm grateful too.

This is the house that Jon built.
This is the addict
who entered the house that Jon built.
This is the Codie
that hated the addict
who found some help in the house that Jon built.
This is the disease
that messed with the addict
that was defeated
when the addict and the codie entered the house that Jon built.
This is the child
that worried the parents
who found some recovery
when he entered
the house that Jon built.
This is the Codie
with the crumpled life
who became a better wife
that worked the steps
which killed the worry
and improved the life
of the Codie who entered the house that Jon built
This is the addict all forlorn
Who suddenly found a life re-born
who tossed the denial
that worried the Codie
which improved their bond
and made them fond
of finding the house that Jon built.
This is the soul all tattered and torn
that found SR one sunny morn
that no longer feels so tired and worn
that tossed the denial
that worried the Codie
which shed some light
that defeated the sickness
as he entered the house that Jon built.
These are the lives no longer torn
who find themselves a bit re-born
and no longer feel so very forlorn
because of the house that Jon built.

Thanks pal.

Don W

Need a larger hat Jon?

tyler

I'll third that one!! I've been around here for a long time, longer than Ann even it looks like!! Can't say I've been clean that whole time, but this is where my journey to recovery started.

I was working in outside sales at the time, good job for getting high all the time, except I never wanted to get in front of customers then. Of couse one of the reasons I would get high was to relieve the anxiety of having to get in front of customers, it relieved it alright, so much that I was playing hooky from my job most of the time and doing the bare minimum to get by. Anyway, I was really starting to feel desparate, I used to go home often during the work day, but my wife was at home at that point with my newborn son, I was supposed to be earning a living, but it really wasn't happening. So I would go hang out at the public library and surf the net. Out of desperation one day I searched "recovery" or something like that and this site came up. My posts here were my first attempt at reaching out for some help. Now it took a few more years before I actually starting accepting that help, but the support I found here for someone as thick skulled as myself has been nothing short of overwhelming!! I've always been a stubborn person, one who has to do it "my way" and I guess this has been no different in recovery. Eventually with support and loving suggestions of the people here, I've found "my way" and it is working for me!! That is the thing I love about this place, there are many who do it the AA way, the NA way, some who do it the SMART way, Lifering way, or even the RR way, but there is still room for me to do it the Tyler way, if that is what works for me! Sure we bicker with each other from time to time, but the level of respect that people have for each other and the various "programs" out there, is wonderful.

Well, I've rambled on enough, but I wanted to share my thoughts on this and give a big Thank You to Jon for his creation!! Here's a dancing bananna for you Jon!!

Ann

Yup, you were here waiting with the coffee on when I got off the bus with a few other oldtimers here, JT, Morning Glory, Debbie, Paulie, I think, and what a sight we must have been staggering in that front door.

And Don, your light has shone on me since the day I arrived also. I've learned a lot from you, my friend, and am glad I stuck around.

Hugs
Ann

Dan

I like it when these threads pop up.
It gives me a chance to remember a morning shortly after I came home from rehab. Alone in the house, I fired up the computer I had hardly ever payed attention to in the past. And I remember exactly what I was feeling at that very moment...

Not cravings, nor fear. Not restlessness, nor resentment.
I felt lonely that morning.
So I googled, as chance would have it, two words. Sober+recovery.
Guess what the first result was...

I like this house.
I found the whole range of human emotions in this 2D world.
I'm very grateful to be part of it.

Don W

Hey tyler, I met this person in AA that was a salesman, he sold perfume. He always told as part of his story the following. He'd make a call and the customer would mention how good his products smelled. He told us that little did they know he was drinking it not wearing it. Don W

Don W

Dan, I also found it by accident,when I returned one day from the VA program. I was home before the wife after 30 days away. I felt like a stranger in my home. I punched in only sober or may program also. I think it was around 99. Anyway, I don't think it had been around long. I also went in and out but, for those that are new, drinking or not I stayed connected until I connected. Don W

CAPTAINZING2000

Nothing happens in God's world by mistake


I wasn't looking for an AA site when, I came into S/R last Nov. I was looking for any stories of Inspiration on the net I could find. I found the thread that Chris had started. As I was reading the stories and checked out the rest of the site, I realized I had found a great AA site.

Some people on here I haven't managed to send a pm to. Some people I'll never have a chance to. I do try and welcome all the newcommers joining S/R .

You just never know, this might be someone's last life line!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Time2Surrender

(((Don))) Im glad your here.SoberRecovery is the best recovery forum on the internet.Im glad Im here too.This site and the people here have saved my a$$ many times.

Millwallj

who is this Jon card?

Dan

The joker in the the house of cards

CAPTAINZING2000

I Like To Think Of Jon As The Ace In The Hole

mishelly

Gabe...that was cool!

SR has meant so much to me. I work in a facility full of alcoholic/addicts and when you're trying to stay clean, you can imagine how hard it is to be around these people. I can log onto SR when it gets to be too much and get grounded again...thank you Jon, thank you all SR members. This place has been instrumental to my recovery and I am sincerely grateful and blessed to have found it.

Val-light

SR's been good to me too!
Val

Don W

Millwallj, Jon's our daddy. Just kidding, this SR is his baby. He started it. Don W

Ann

Jon is the owner and founder of this site...or as he would tell it...

I, for one, am grateful that he was sober when he had this idea. And I know that today, it takes his breath away to see how much it has grown and continues to grow each day. "Just a drunk with some software" built the finest recovery site in all of cyberspace. Thank you Jon.

Hugs
Ann

True Blue

Don, thanks for the great thread you started. Oh and Gabe that is beautiful.

I too found SR by accident, I was looking for NA meeting in my area.

This place has been a god-send to me.

Thank you Jon.