When I was doing my 90 days at Sybil Brand, after being caught absconding on probation, I got a chance to get out of the prison ward to go to an AA meeting. So I started going every chance I could and because of that they started letting me go to a computer class, which was outside in a bungalow. Well, one day instead of walking at the right the class room I went to the left into another bungalow where there was a man sitting at the desk and who looked busy. He didn’t say anything to me so I just looked around on the billboard. I saw the telephone number to ‘friends outside’ so I asked him if I could call them on the telephone and he said ‘go right ahead’. Cause truly needed a friend. Pride and ego had stopped me from communicating with friends and family. I was just stuck, just me and God in that prison ward. The funniest thing happened when I dialed that number and a lady answered and said “Deborah is that you? Where are you at? At Sybil Brand? “I’ll be there tomorrow to see you!” She acted like she knew me.
Next day she came to visit. She took one look at me and said, “who are you”? You’re not Deborah Alcastor. ” - so I broke down, all the way down and begged her not to leave but please hear me out! - She asked me if, “I was true and finished with getting high and destroying myself living that life style?” I promised her, and for once in my life I meant it! – that I was done!.
So she prepared a place for me at the table of recovery, got me a spot at sober living and made arrangements for someone to be there to pick me up when I was released – God showed up and showed out cause I got kicked out of jail one day early – and still got the ride from her people and made it safely to sober living in Pasadena.
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