Still thinking about friends I have made over a long period of time in this program and how much help they have meant to me. Hopefully I have been able to return to them what they gave to me in order to continue to live a full and happy life and remain sober.
I can well remember how one of the difficulties I had coming into this program, trying to be honest, became much easier with these two people. Sharing I found became a necessity for these two. Unavoidable to say the least. My sponsor and those old timers had already begun to help me to learn how to become more open, but the need of these two opened the door for me. Not an overnight event, but it certainly became a reality because they showed me their needs and then the reverse became a reality. They began to become open and honest with me. I found we were helping each other.
All of this was because we had begun to do what our sponsors and those old timers showed us. We had begun to live a spiritual life. Again not an easy event. But a necessity we learned if we wanted to stay sober. And we had already made a commitment never to drink ever again. Now we all had to find out how to clean up our lives and become positive and open, instead of hidden and dark inside. To at least modify our faults and change our attitudes from negative to positive.
Anyway I needed to think about these friendships and all they have done for me. I am grateful for the kindness and the happiness which was given to me through all this time in this program. The support we all needed from each other, the love and caring which is what we all learned from our sponsors and old timers. And the grace we all have been given by the God of our understandings. I just needed to remind myself today of all this and say thanks. And that doesn’t mean I have forgotten the rest in here, but these two are so special in my life and in my sobriety.
Once again thinking about staying sober a day at a time.