AA Thought for the Day
December 7, 2003
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Meetings
I began to see the miracles that happen only in AA.
People who would nearly crawl in the doors, sick and broken,
and who in a few weeks of meetings and not drinking
one day at a time would get their health back,
find a little job and friends who really cared,
and then discover a God in their lives.
But the most compelling part of AA,
the part that made me want to try this sober thing,
was the laughter, the pure joy of the laughter
that I heard only from sober alcoholics.
Thought to Ponder....
Meetings: a check-up from the neck up.
Recovery Related Acronym
H J F = Happy, Joyous, Free.
A Member Shares...
Hi, I'm an alcoholic named John M.
Twenty-eight years ago this month I left detox in Bayvillage, Ohio. I felt that my life had come to end. Filled with anger, guilt, and fear, I remembered to call AA as I was told in detox. Picking up that 500 lb. phone and calling for help was difficult to say the least, but I did. Shortly, two members arrived at my house and within a few hours I had been taken to my first AA meeting. Shaking and fearful, somehow I made it through that first meeting, remembering only the smell of cigarette smoke, coffee, and smiling faces. Now I live in Vero Beach, Florida, still sober. Within a room filled with laughter and smiling faces, thanks to God, my sponsors, and the program of Alcoholics Anonymous, I was given a new life as promised in the Big Book. Little did I know that AA was the beginning of the road not the end.
Thanks AA!
- John M.
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