I was thinking today about the Second Step, one of the subjects of our meeting. I have never been able to get over this Step. It not only made a good impression on me, when it came up, it actually changed my whole life and I never ever want to forget that.
I mean it not only began the spiritual way of life in here for me and opened the whole program, it actually brought about what it offered me. My restoration to sanity. I can’t forget that moment when what was written came into being. I actually knew I had stopped fighting everyone and everything, including alcohol. Sanity had returned for me. Amazing.
When I think about how it was when I walked through these doors, looking back, I remember what I felt at that moment. I truly felt like I had come home for the first time in my life. The hope I was given. And that hope turned into faith. I never want to forget that.
Not only that, but over time I learned that my trusting in my Higher Power became the basis for my being able to stay sober a day at a time. I was thinking about the young man, who brought the Second Step up as topic, and was hoping that some way along the line he will come to believe and hope in this Power greater than himself, and be gifted the way I have been since I came in here.
Anyway it did bring why I am in here to mind today. Like that young man, and others, I hope that we all are here to stay sober this day. This day and everyday in our lives. I know that’s what I’m thinking.
What a wonderful gift this is for me. A new freedom and a new happiness, as in those promises in the Ninth Step. I can’t help but love what I have been given and hope that others will have the same opportunity I’ve had.
Just gratitude for the gift my sponsor gave to me, when he had me read the chapter, We Agnostics. Told me what I needed. That I had to live a spiritual way of life or die an alcoholic death. Had already been there and didn’t want to go back. I need to say thanks for what my Higher Power has given me. And thanks to all, including my old sponsor and my friends and others, who have helped me.