This next week is when we have chip day. On that day, I hope to be there and celebrate my anniversary. And that made me think about a lot of things. The one thing that kept coming back is that you never know how much you may have helped someone stay sober or how you might help change someone’s life.
I think I’ve told this before, but the man, who helped me get sober I never knew and he never knew me. He was a man on the other end of the telephone to another man, who carried his message back to me. I often wonder if he ever knew how he changed my life and saved it.
I was thinking about that earlier today. Someone told me something one day at a meeting. I later passed that on to others. One of the people who heard it passed it on to someone else in need of that message. Yesterday that person wrote me and sent part of what that person had to say back to me. The man who said it to me never knew what impact his message had on this other person. I know what impact it had on me.
Sometimes I think we go to meetings and are unaware that someone sitting in a meeting is getting a message, even though we may not open our mouths. The very fact that we are in attendance is giving a message to them. We attend meetings, even though we may be a long time sober. We still go to meetings because they help to keep us sober.
Our actions and demeanor at meetings and after meetings also carry a message to someone who is looking for the sober life. They may never speak to us. They just watch. I know this happens, because there were a lot of people I saw, when I came in, who never knew the impact they had on my sobriety. I never spoke to them, I just watched.
When I think of this stuff, I think of the woman, who wrote her story in the first edition. She told how much she wanted to pass the message on to others and said she was saying this in all reverance. I hope I do the same. That attitude helps me to stay sober.
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