Relapse

Last night my wife Ros and I had a chance to bring back one of our new friends in recovery who relapsed. She was no longer a newcomer being 60 days clean but her sobriety was relatively fresh and here she had her first test. She went on a 5 day binge and when she was physically, emotionally and financially spent she called her cousin to pay for her cab fare then went to that cousin's house to crash. The mom in turn called me up. I asked if she was willing to return and she said yes. So we went to pick her up.
Although her face grew gaunt and bore the stress of sleepless nights, there were important lessons and realizations learned for her. That any lousy day in recovery is better than the best days in active using. That we all have choices and each choice has its own consequence. That self-will run riot has no place in recovery.
Her daughter's father decided to discontinue supporting her treatment and cut off all her financial support. And during her 5 day binge, no one of her drugging friends came to help her and none of her recovering friends rescued or enabled her, but now that she has returned, one by one, they are all signifying their support for her to continue treatment.
At first I was afraid to take her in most specially because these times our finances were low and this would disrupt the normal routine of our lives having a recovering addict in our house who will basically be detoxing for the next week or so. But this is where the faith and trust in my God kicks in. I know He will not let us down.