Good day for someone like me. Today I talked to people all over the East Coast. What about? Besides personal stuff, we all talked about the program. Our sobriety. About sponsorship, working with others, the spiritual foundation of this program. We all talked about friendships we have in this program. We talked about others from the West to the East, the North to the South.
Sharing even some problems we all had. A lot of good feedback, back and forth.
I live up North and received invitations to go South during snowstorms. The love and generosity touched me deeply. A result of what this program has done for so many of us. Memories I cannot forget, nor can they.
One of the things was reading much of the AA literature. The stories in the BB and other publications and how much inspiration we all get from these. Made me think of things I read before going to sleep each night.
Almost all I talked to today, in Fla., Va., Md., and NYC have a lot of time in this program. They knew the old timers I knew, when I came in and all the help we got. They’d be glad to tell anyone just how tough these people could be. Why? Because they cared. And we all know that. In fact it was the cause of much laughter among us.
It was only later on that I got a chance to stop and think about the gifts this program has given me. Reminded me of something I read in one of the spiritual awakening books from the Grapevine. A man said something about his love for his Higher Power. He said he loved his HP, then amended that, because he said he wasn’t all that constant. However he said he was convinced that he was loved and that was all that mattered. Today that thought came to me, as a result of what transpired today. I think it was one way I experience this love.
Anyway, it was a fulfilling day for me. The program was working, that was obvious in the people I was talking to. Imagine, I thought, having a meeting this way. Hearing what I needed to hear. Makes me grateful. Another gift of sobriety.