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Went to a birthday speaker meeting last night and listened to a young gal celebrate one year last night. It was heart warming. I took a couple of guys that I sponsor who have 90 days and 4 months respectively. We also had another guy with us who is shopping! I hope he decides to take the course of attraction. Having said all that it is very easy to become jaded and complacent in the program and yet I feel invigorated this morning as I witnessed grass roots AA at it's finest. If we stay away and don't participate we miss the newness and the excitement of a first birthday and the exhilaration that goes with it. We miss the almost hyper ventilation when we see the gal overcome with gratitude. We miss all the cheerleaders in the audience who have been with the gal every step of the way. We miss the smile on the sponsor who looks so protectively on the young girl and pats herself on the back a little for a great job in progress. We miss the proud parents who are now able to finally sleep at night in the knowledge that their girl will come home, be safe, be clean and sober, and be responsible - wow that is a whole lot. We miss all the friends that we have not seen for some time and yet are all their acting out the miracle. A bunch of drunks coming together on Friday night in the conscious thought that they will not drink - what a concept and what a miracle. We miss the young girl herself come up with the line of the night when she got to the what happened part of her story and she bashfully said that she was in the middle of “$800 of bad!” when she turned to AA. The joy and the miracles were all over that room and the atmosphere was infectious. How is it that we can go from that to the next idea which is I don't need one of those damned meetings today. That fragile ego which keeps telling us that we are whole and don't need to go. It makes no sense and yet that it what happens when we forget that what we witnessed last night was God inspired and that all I was looking at last night was the bbest advertisement for the program that God could muster.
On the way home my car was awash with young sobriety talking in an excited fashion about what they had just witnessed. I listened and was glad. What a great day, what a great program, what great people, what a gift!
Went to a birthday speaker meeting last night and listened to a young gal celebrate one year last night. It was heart warming. I took a couple of guys that I sponsor who have 90 days and 4 months respectively. We also had another guy with us who is shopping! I hope he decides to take the course of attraction. Having said all that it is very easy to become jaded and complacent in the program and yet I feel invigorated this morning as I witnessed grass roots AA at it's finest. If we stay away and don't participate we miss the newness and the excitement of a first birthday and the exhilaration that goes with it. We miss the almost hyper ventilation when we see the gal overcome with gratitude. We miss all the cheerleaders in the audience who have been with the gal every step of the way. We miss the smile on the sponsor who looks so protectively on the young girl and pats herself on the back a little for a great job in progress. We miss the proud parents who are now able to finally sleep at night in the knowledge that their girl will come home, be safe, be clean and sober, and be responsible - wow that is a whole lot. We miss all the friends that we have not seen for some time and yet are all their acting out the miracle. A bunch of drunks coming together on Friday night in the conscious thought that they will not drink - what a concept and what a miracle. We miss the young girl herself come up with the line of the night when she got to the what happened part of her story and she bashfully said that she was in the middle of “$800 of bad!” when she turned to AA. The joy and the miracles were all over that room and the atmosphere was infectious. How is it that we can go from that to the next idea which is I don't need one of those damned meetings today. That fragile ego which keeps telling us that we are whole and don't need to go. It makes no sense and yet that it what happens when we forget that what we witnessed last night was God inspired and that all I was looking at last night was the bbest advertisement for the program that God could muster.
On the way home my car was awash with young sobriety talking in an excited fashion about what they had just witnessed. I listened and was glad. What a great day, what a great program, what great people, what a gift!
