After getting some bad news about her husband, my daughter called her sponsor and cried on her shoulder awhile. He sponsor is a wise woman and a very patient listener. After she gave up the ghost and asked her sponsor what she should do, her sponsor told her to "get out the shovel, dig him up, dust him off, and allow him to breathe while he's still here". After that she told her to not drink over it and start with step 1. She laughed at the visual and started doing the work and 2 days later they called her and told her there had been a mix-up in the tests and he was gonna live. Oh course, she had to call her sponsor and tell her and she said, "now aren't you glad you dug him back up?"
I guess this could come under the heading 'advice' ...
I was nearing the end of my 1st 90 days (90-in-90) and my sponsor called me:
Where were you last night ??? ... I said it was rainin' ... he said did you ever go out and get beer while it was rainin' ? ... yeah ... He said, well, you missed it ... I said what'd I miss ... he said I don't know ... I said well, wasn't you there? ... he said yeah, but I only heard what I was supposed to hear, we'll never know what it was YOU were supposed to hear! ...
I thought, damn, you gotta go every night or you'll 'miss it' ...
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'Those who leave everything in God's hand will eventually see God's hand in everything.'
A member of a certain AA group, who previously had been attending meetings regularly, stopped going. After a few weeks, another group member decided to visit him.
It was a chilly evening.. The group member found the man at home alone, sitting before a blazing fire. Guessing the reason for his AA friend's visit, the man welcomed him, led him to a comfortable chair near the fireplace and waited.
The friend made himself at home but said nothing. In the grave silence, he contemplated the dance of the flames around the burning logs. After some minutes, the friend took the fire tongs, carefully picked up a brightly burning ember and placed it to one side of the hearth all alone then he sat back in his chair, still silent.
The host watched all this in quiet contemplation. As the one lone ember's flame flickered and diminished, there was a momentary glow and then its fire was no more. Soon it was cold and dead.
Not a word had been spoken since the initial greeting. The friend glanced at his watch and realized it was time to leave. He slowly stood up, picked up the cold, dead ember and placed it back in the middle of the fire. Immediately it began to glow, once more with the light and warmth of the burning coals around it.
As the friend reached the door to leave, his host said with a tear running down his cheek, 'Thank you so much for your visit and especially for the firery message. I will be back to the next meeting.
We live in a world today, which tries to say too much with too little. Consequently, few listen. Sometimes the best lessons are the ones left unspoken.
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'Those who leave everything in God's hand will eventually see God's hand in everything.'
How long do I have to keep coming to these meetings I asked - was told that when you don't want to go to a meeting, that's a good time to go to a meeting, keep doing that until you want to come to a meeting.......
and how many meetings do I need I asked.........well one or two a year should do it, but you don't know which ones they'll be so go to lots of meetings.
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It's not having what you want, it's wanting what you got. BB
The meeting you make an excuse not to go to is the one you need the most.
I was told that real early on and it's a rule I live by. The one time I gave into the excuse things started to turn to shit and custard pretty quickly, so I'm not game to try it again.
