Heart for the Journey

Shortly after my employment came to an end, my little brother made the choice to enter into rehab. It's no secret that he has struggled with addiction since he was 12 years old, but it had gotten so bad that he finally realized he had a problem. God's timing is always perfect because when a person makes a choice to go to rehab, that doesn't mean they will be accepted into a treatment center right away and since I wasn't working at the time, I was able to take him in and help him get sober while we waited for a bed to open up. For a few weeks I was able to spend one on one time with him, hold him accountable, counsel him and support him in any way possible. He was finally able to get into a program down the street from my house after being clean for 3 weeks!  During his stay at rehab, I was able to come visit him on the weekends and it was at the facility that I was introduced to his sponsor, George. I was immediately attracted to him, his voice alone drew me in a...

I had moved from Sacramento to San Diego to take a job at a software company...the money was good, I believed in the software because I had used it at previous jobs, I made new friends and really enjoyed what I was doing. I found my niche at the company and grew really close to the girls on my team, we literally had bonded in ways I had never experienced with coworkers before. After a year of working with this company, my team lead, who was one of my closest friends, was a part of my review process in which she laid out a really negative portrayal of me based off of the opinion of one of her friends in a different department who I barely even knew and had only interacted with a handful of times. Now I can take constructive criticism, but what she put down on my official company review was so off the wall I was completely blindsided and left on vacation that very same day with a lot of hurt, confusion and anger. When I spoke to her about it and undid everything that her friend had told...