One of the miracles of this program is seeing and hearing a group practicing the Fifth Tradition. And that was what happened today. We had a woman, who had been drinking on and off. Now she was sitting in our meeting. She was the first one to talk today. She was going on and on and was finally asked to be quiet. She didn’t know what she was talking about. She did stop.
That’s when the whole group, one by one did a pretty good Twelfth Step, as the Tradition talks about. The primary purpose, to carry the AA message to the alcoholic, who still suffers. And, definitely, as the long form tells us, to be a spiritual entity. And we were.
I know, like others, I’m really touched, when the group is focused on what it needs to do and doesn’t wander off into other things. The group was totally committed to hopefully turn her confused mind into staying sober a day at a time. Hopefully helping her to seek the really good meeting makers, who can sponsor her.
All I know is that it encouraged me to once again to think about why we all are here. Why I am here. I’m here to stay sober a day at a time. And talking about being spiritual, I am reminded that my greatest help in here is my Higher Power. My willingness to follow what I know to be His will for an alcoholic like myself. I know that I’m not the spiritual person laid out in the BB and the 12&12, and the rest of AA literature. But I know I can pray and stop to think about what it is I need to do. And I was hoping that for the young woman today.
I was hoping she was in enough pain to want to change. Hard for me to be sure. But I know I had to say the Serenity Prayer. The things I cannot change. And that’s every other person in this world. I can only hope and continue to try to change myself. I know that what has happened and been given to me makes me grateful for this way of life. I can pray a thank you to my Higher Power and all those old timers in here, who helped me to stay sober from the day I walked into these rooms. And I know, witnessing what the alcoholics in there did today, I am so grateful for them. Helped me greatly.