dream chasing

so mike & i are starting a new journey. it has been a dream of his, one that i've taken on as well, to open up a halfway house for recovering alcoholics, for obvious reasons i think. we want to provide a clean, safe place to give a hand up to people who are trying to get & stay sober. there are a lot of places out there, some good, some not so much. to start we will be a "sober living house" for men. eventually when mike finishes school and gets licensed we will talk about adding counseling services and becoming some sort of facility. at some point i'd like to be able to help women as well, and their children if need be. so the hope is to help people like us get the support and help they need.
so we have been looking for properties in the third ward area, we even made an offer on one this weekend. more will be revealed.
its scary to think about starting this business- success, failure. the unknown probably more than anything.

my girlfriend asked me the other day what i did for a "creative outlet". i had no answer (she pointed out my blog was one) but this is something i've been thinking about for quite awhile, especially this week since i was asked that question. i've never felt like a creative being, actually quite the opposite.

so i had a conversation with a dear friend today and he put something in a way that i have never thought of before. he said the bible says we are created in gods image, so being that god is the creator, that means we all have a creative force inside of us. (not that i'm a serious christian that takes too seriously what i read in the bible - thats a post for a different time) but creativity doesn't have to mean being an artist, musician, etc. or what i've been percieving it to mean. it can be anything really. my children are a creation. our marriage. and as much as i need something for myself i think a good start would be to acknowledge the things that i do create & participate in already. huh, that just came to me. aha.....

so i say all that to say this, i have no idea what that means for me but i'm willing to keep my eyes and heart open to find out. and yet again, more will be revealed.