Finally, after two weeks I got back to a meeting today. What a relief. Home again.
That was due to all this stuff that’s been going around. I was told it would take two weeks to get through this. They weren’t kidding. I still have some of the symptoms left, but free enough that I got out and to a meeting. Thank my Higher Power and the doctor, who got me the antibiotics.
Anyway, besides being grateful for the grace I had been given, I heard a lot of good stuff. Not only about staying sober, but learning to get my emotions under control and keeping my mouth shut. As one of my friends said in the meeting today, that a closed mouth can keep our feet out of it.
That made me think about all I was told in my early years about how emotions take over our minds and run our lives for us. Usually into some very bad places. Over the years I have tried to practice growing up emotionally. That was sure something I never thought about, when I was out there drinking. Then I come in here and begin to live a new way of life. A spiritual way of life.
None of this has been an overnight event. Time takes time. Takes learning and more learning. Making mistakes and trying again and again to do it right. And even though life is so much better with being able with the help of my Higher Power and the people in here to begin to be in charge of my own thinking and actions, without anger, resentments, fear, anxiety, and all the rest, taking control and running me into the ground. And possibly a drink again.
Anyway it was refreshing to get good reminders of what this way of life is all about. It’s about my living a sober life. I know that it’s at meetings I get these refresher courses I so desperately need. Makes me grateful. I got the spiritual answers I needed for this day.