Day 6 YWCA Workman
I must say that I really enjoyed when Ricky and Stuart came to talk to us today. By having Ricky tell us his story I learned first hand one way that someone could become homeless. He told us why he became homeless and how he struggled with his alcohol addiction and basically lost everything. It was one time when his daughter really told him that she was worried and he saw how torn apart she was. That made him want to change the way he was. He went to Guiding Light Mission where he received help and treatment for his alcohol addiction. He told us that every day is a struggle for him and how its very hard to abstain from it. I have a lot of respect for Ricky because he went though something so hard and is still keeping at it. I also really appreciated how much Ricky cared about us. Most of us were strangers to him and he still wanted to help us realize the dangers of alcohol so that we wouldn't have to go through what he did and so that we wouldn't end up where he was. I thought that that was very thoughtful of him and I really enjoyed having both of them come talk to us.