My brother has struggled with addiction problems for his entire life.
He started using hard drugs in high school and things only got worse as time went on.
It’s hard loving someone so much and knowing you can’t do anything to help them, regardless of how hard you try. I prayed that someday my sibling would find the strength to change, knowing that I could lose him from his habits. He disappeared for a year and we all thought the worst, but eventually we got a call from a rehab facility. My brother was alive and well, and to our amazement he was finally getting the help he needed. It has been 10 years and my brother is a changed human being. He has a great job working as a welder for an automotive body shop here in town. On the weekends he is either working in his yard or building models in his basement. He has to keep a lot of hobbies to counteract the occasional urges he gets for drugs, despite all of the years since he quit. Recently he decided to get into beekeeping. Apparently he got the idea after watching a documentary about it on the internet. Even though he has the money and space for the equipment, he wasn’t sure where to start. While he kept learning as much as possible from the internet, he called a beekeeping residential service to help him get started with his new hobby. I’m excited to try the honey from my brother’s new honey farm after he harvests his first batch.