Hello family! My name is Ralph and I'm an Alcoholic.

You all reached out to me when God brought me to you. I was finished; bottomed out. I wanted what you had ... especially that gleam in your eyes. You said, "You want what we have? You'll have to do what we did." That was easy for me to accept, but then you said I'd have to give some back. I didn't know how to do that. And then someone else said, "Can you help me? I'm scared, and I can't stop drinking." I showed him what you had showed me. I read the Big Book with him, and worked him through the Steps. We talked a lot about a God of his choice, and that light came on in his eyes! Then I got It ... the teacher became the student. I got as much or more out of it as he did tenfold. I don't know how that works ... but it does! Thank you, and thank God, for paying it forward, and giving me a life beyond my wildest dreams. God bless all of you! I truly love you all because God doesn't have any grandchildren.

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