Hi, guys.
Phil, many, many heartfelt congratulations on 60 days. I know how hard you have struggled in the past to get to where you are today. Enjoy the week at home. Us road warriors deserve to get some at home time once in a while.
Ancon, Welcome!! My hubby gripes about my time away at the meetings, too. :-) I can't really blame him because I am usually only home on weekends, which means I am home and awake about 28 hours a week. Then, I end up leaving him for roughly 6 hours of those precious 28 hours. But, if I don't get to my home group meetings on the weekend, I miss them horribly. I need them and my home group friends. We are a small, close group with a lot of sobriety. Despite my many relapses and binges, they keep welcoming me back and giving me great suggestions. My sponsor is wonderful. So, yes, hubby gripes but he loves me sober and knows how important it is to me.
DG, the AA meeting here is in an AA owned club house type of environment. They have large comfy leather swivel chairs and a nice warm building. Every table has two bottles of hand sanitizer on it. I realized how smart that was of the group, especially during this flu season. I hope you are healing quickly and can get back to your meetings soon.
Mary, I am thinking of you.
The meeting tonight's topic was about control. A young girl has a friend who is still using and is feeling the frustration of not being able to help her. She talked about how to deal with the intense desire us alcoholics/addicts have to control over others.
Since I am still working Step 3, it was a wonderful meeting for me. I recognize how critical it is to make that decision to turn my will and my life over to my God. We all tend to have that huge desire to control everything around us and are so frustrated when we can't. Hence the Serenity Prayer, the morning prayers, the evening gratittude prayers and the prayers whenever we need guidance. My "control" has kept me hopelessly drunk for many years.
I am diligently working everyday on letting go of my fears and my desire to control and let my God take the reins.
It is difficult for me but it is working. I am grateful it is. Peace and serenity are beginning to come just as the 9th Step promises.
Today, I am grateful to be a sober, recovering alcoholic.
Love to all,
Cindi
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