It seems as through I just don't have the time to check in with you guys as much as I would like, or need to. I really get alot out of the posts, miss you all.
Tomorrow will be a sad day as we will be burying another one of our AA members, she was 86 years old and sober for 39 years. Talk about wisdom, she could say more with just a smile and a hug than a lot of words. She never gave up on anyone and loved to have step meetings. I went to visit her awhile back at the nursing home ,and found someone had moved her framed Serenity Prayer, so I put it back out where she could see it and talked to her about how the first time I heard that prayer, it was like a hundred pound weight had been lifted off my shoulders. She smiled and gave me a big hug.
Her husband died 15 years ago and she had no children, but she had her AA family and her church family. We will all gather tomorrow to pay our respects to a woman who lived life on lifes
terms and never met a drunk she didn't want to see get sober.She will be missed ,but her legacy will live on, she is now with that husband who got sober on the same day she did when they decided to walk into that church basement and see what AA was all about. I will celebrate her life tomorrow, I will laugh, cry, and hug, all the things she helped me learn to do without drinking.I will say the Serenity Prayer and say "See you later, Jo."
I pray you each have one person in your life that can touch you in a special way, I know I have been blessed to have more than one, and for that I am truly grateful.
There is something special about people who have lived their life willing to pass on, I think. It is a special quality. Their farewells are so different...like they don't just go... but they leave each person they come into contact with, a personal legacy. It is even nicer when folks recognise the legacy they have been left and the gifts they have been given, and are willing to act on them.
It is no wonder your friend found you. Her legacy is in good hands.
