A friend of ours wrote an email yesterday stating, this program works. This program works!
It hit me today, when I went back and read what was written, that I rarely hear that statement. It does work, but I feel that there are too many times we fail to state that.
All I have to do, on any given day, is to look around the rooms in here and see just how many sober men and women there are in these rooms. I know that once I got past my resistance within, when I came into these rooms, I began to believe this program worked, even though I had no knowledge or experience in here. All I had to believe was that I never ever wanted to drink again, and watch all those old timers in here.
When I get up in the morning and begin my day, even though I don’t focus on it, the idea that this program works is right there within me. It’s just that I never make that statement very often. Perhaps, because it is working each and everyday in my life and the lives of my friends, I must feel that that is enough.
I know that we are supposed to limit our thoughts about this program to staying sober a day at a time. Perhaps that limits our thoughts on this. I know there is no guarantee that any of us will stay sober the rest of our lives. However I believe, and have for a long time, that I will never want to drink again in this lifetime. Ever! I never want to go back to what I had to go through, when I couldn’t stop drinking no matter what I tried. I still drank each and everyday, almost all of the day. I was a total slave to alcohol. I was suffering from deep despair.
Thanks for the hope given to me, which stopped me from killing myself, and led me to surrender to my Higher Power, and beg that I be relieved from drinking and living the life I was living, and if that happened I would do anything He wanted me to do. And for me that was this program. And it has worked.
Anyway I just wanted to stop and think about this. This program works. I haven’t had to take a drink ever, since I came into these rooms. Surrendering to that First Step, accepting the spiritual life in the Second Step, and turning my life and my will over to the God of my understanding in the Third, opened the door for me and began this way of life and the changes I had to go through. A miracle. Absolutely amazing, when I stop and think about it.
And I have never had to do this alone. I probably couldn’t. However I have all these friends in here, whom I grew to know and love, right from the beginning. And we continue to grow as time goes on, and help each other along the way. I am so grateful and thankful each and everyday. Thanks.