...that one person who says that one thing to me. And that one thing is what touches my soul.
In my newness and in the handful of meetings I've been to (I've just passed the point where I can no longer count the number of meetings on my fingers and toes), I'm amazed when the person I would have avoided in my other life is the person who makes me hear something I haven't heard before.
It has happened 3 times now. And each time it feels like a small part of me has been forever altered in a positive way.
I knew a man from a place called Bear River. He was a big man, rude, obnoxious, arrogant...a lot like me when I drank. I didn't much like him. His name was Bob, Bob the happy alcoholic with that Herman Munster smile, oh jeez gimme a break. Anyway, at the local club they have marathon meetings on xmas eve. I spent my first few xmases there so one year I decided to go down and "give back what was freely given to me". Only one other person showed up and you guessed it. It was Bob. we spent the entire evening together, drinking coffee, playing cards, swapping fish tales. I learned a lot that night. the most important thing I learned was that Bob wasn't that bad of a guy. It was me that had the problem with Bob. Bob died a few years ago of natural causes. Sometimes when I'm in a meeting you might hear me say, "You catch more bears with honey than you do with a big stick." I stole that one from Bob.
have a safe journey. the road is full of wonders.
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Not all my days are priceless, but none of my days are worthless, anymore.
Thanks for sharing, it is an amazing fellowship. I still remember a lot of the people and things they said during my first months, the things that helped to give me the willingness to totally surrender and a gradually attain a spiritual experience.
I still always seem to hear the things I need to hear when I talk to another AA or go to a meeting, I try to be helpful and of service to new people when I can.
Funny thing, if you stay on this path you will be at a meeting some day and someone with a year or two sober will walk up to you and thank you for a few things you said to them early in their soberity......you will be glad you where able to help but won't remember talking to them, just doing God's work.
Take Care,
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Rob
"There ain't no Coupe DeVille hiding in the bottom of a Cracker Jack Box."
...that one person who says that one thing to me. And that one thing is what touches my soul.
In my newness and in the handful of meetings I've been to (I've just passed the point where I can no longer count the number of meetings on my fingers and toes), I'm amazed when the person I would have avoided in my other life is the person who makes me hear something I haven't heard before.
It has happened 3 times now. And each time it feels like a small part of me has been forever altered in a positive way.
And, perhaps what's even better is that you are so willing to hear AND listen to that which may have passed you right by last week, last month. That gives me the "warm and fuzzies" just thinking about it. So, perhaps two things are different, eh? Don't tell ME there ain't no GOD in these rooms!
...that one person who says that one thing to me. And that one thing is what touches my soul.
In my newness and in the handful of meetings I've been to (I've just passed the point where I can no longer count the number of meetings on my fingers and toes), I'm amazed when the person I would have avoided in my other life is the person who makes me hear something I haven't heard before.
It has happened 3 times now. And each time it feels like a small part of me has been forever altered in a positive way.
Thats just wonderful. I try my best now to treat all as equel to me today. And its funny how often I go to a meeting and hear just what I need to hear that day too. :}
