This evening I picked up the BB and read a story of a man, who had an effect on opening a group in Canada. As I was reading this a word jumped out off the page and affected my thoughts. That was because what he was saying was exactly what hit me back when I was drinking. And that was despair.
After that I was right with him all the way up to his getting sober. As he went on I liked what he was doing and then he hit me again. And that was when he began to work with others and how he never wanted to forget that was what we do. We reach out to others and try to do for them what was done for us. We try to help them get sober. And that is what helps us to stay sober.
And then he talked about trying to help someone to begin to fill them up with what he had received. And that was what I have like him found myself. Gratitude. I never want to forget that gift. It has helped me to think of sobriety.
But it is his thoughts about his Higher Power, which I really found helpful. His faith had collapsed over drinking time, because he felt that God had let him down. I hear that a lot in here. How others have been lost and then found their way back, when they were able to get sober and stay sober and change. I see a lot of myself in this and it helps to hear and read about others who have done the same thing. In fact I spent a lot of time reading about spiritual awakenings in this program, because they always seem to reinforce me. Makes me grateful.
Anyway it was one of those stories which helped remind me of my need to think about why I am here and what it is I need to do on a daily basis. To continue to stay sober one day at a time. Yesterday is gone and tomorrow is not here. At the moment I am right here. Sober and filled with gratitude for all I have been given.