Finding yourself a safe harbour

Its been over 2 months since my last post. Cody continues on his path, meeting challenges with with patience and quick resolve. He is about to finish his second semester at SMC and recently received a perfect grade on his term paper. His friendships continue to change and it seems that he continually is reminded how fragile recovery is and how shallow addicts are in their relationships. We encourage him to not get caught up in others dramas and he understands. He understands and can see the paths that can be taken and chooses the ones that strengthen his resolve.
The Visions Program has hired him as a tech, working both day and night shifts monitoring the activities of other teens in recovery. He understands their plight and he serves as an example of what can be achieved. We are very proud of what he has achieved and the life he is making for himself. Two years ago we were all consumed with his addiction and were beginning to understand the problem was just not teen angst, but a serious life situation. Despite his running away, the overdose death of his best friend and troubles in school and elsewhere, we still believed that it was not serious enough to put him in a program. Looking back I could say we were blind to not have noticed how serious it all was but as time has passed I can now say we were reluctant to accept that our son had a problem. After all, he was our son and only others had issues. We raised him with a moral compass and provided with all the love and care he needed and then some. We taught him right from wrong and saw he was empathetic and had many friends. We spoke about drugs from an early age and monitored his activities. How could this have happened?
Two years have passed. He graduated from high school and is in college. He has a great job and continually turns life's depressing episodes into opportunities to do better and help others. Time changes everything. The only thing that really exists at the moment is now. Everything else is just a memory or a hope.

When people see some things as beautiful,
other things become ugly.
When people see some things as good,
other things become bad.

Being and non-being create each other.
Difficult and easy support each other.
Long and short define each other.
High and low depend on each other.
Before and after follow each other.

Therefore the Master
acts without doing anything
and teaches without saying anything.
Things arise and he lets them come;
things disappear and she lets them go.
He has but doesn't possess,
acts but doesn't expect.
When his work is done, he forgets it.
That is why it lasts forever.