All I can say about today’s meeting is “Wow!”. What a great meeting. All who participated were enthusiastic in speaking and sharing their experiences.
A woman began the meeting by sharing how tempted she was in thinking about a drink. That brought up the topic (surprise, surprise) the Second Step. It was about the insanity of thinking about drinking alcohol and the need of our higher power to restore us to sanity and save us from that next drink.
Almost everyone in there today said that their insanity was always that they thought they could drink alcohol and handle it, when all the time it was never true. A number of people admitted that, when they came in, they couldn’t understand how they could be insane. It was only, when they came to realize their drinking history and experiences, that they finally saw their insanity. And then the need to believe in their higher power, because they then knew they needed to be restored to sanity.
All agreed that there is no cure for what’s wrong with us and that there may come a time, when only God can protect us from that next drink. Until then they all admitted that we all need to be at meetings because we can’t stay sober by ourselves.
To me it felt like I was back in those early years in the program. The enthusiasm and the intensity in the room could be felt by everyone. They all voiced it after the meeting, thanking each other for what had been shared. I know I could feel it and I felt the same way, grateful.
Just another day to pay attention, share, and stay sober. I need this kind of meeting to remind me of where I came from and just why I never want to go back there. And to be reminded once again of why I need to stay close to my higher power. Everyone pretty much said that it was their higher power, who got them sober and keeps them sober. Me too.