What a gift I have been given. I mean here I was an awful drunk before, and now I am provided the opportunity to help others like myself get sober and do what I’m allowed to do. To provide love to those who desperately need it.
Once again I had to stop and think about that so great Twelfth Step. Being able to offer drunks like myself the chance to do what I did. To surrender to that First Step of ours and get sober. And hopefully stay sober a day at a time.
But then I have always had to stop and think of what else I have been given in here and hope that others will be able to surrender and be able to receive the same. The one I definitely remember is my old sponsor waking me up and helping me to get honest and stop kidding myself by thinking I knew everything. And then his opening the door for me in this program through offering me a spiritual way of life. The Second Step.
Today at the meeting we talked about all of this. What it was like before we came here and what happened when we did get sober and put this program into action. It was a miracle for all of us. That’s what we talked about.
But almost everyone went on to the Twelfth Step and what it has meant to us. How we all feel that we have been blessed and want to give this blessing to others like ourselves.
Anyway I was really inspired by all of those, who talked about their being blessed with waking up and not having a hangover. The freedom we have this day not to take a drink. Our being sober this day. The expression of gratitude to our Higher Power and this program. It always reminds me of how much I owe to, not just God as I understand Him, but my old sponsor and all those old timers. And how I need to thank all of those, who through my time in here have helped me.