Many thanks to God and my brothers and sisters on this forum. This success is a tribute to you for caring and sharing with me. My online meeting with you any time of day and night, across huge time zones, has been such a blessing to me.
I am closer to you then many who I meet face to face every day. The 1st day I came into this place I was welcomed by Dean and the oldtimers and it felt like walking into my first AA meeting on the 19th August 1988. The love just permeated the airwaves.
A very big Congratulations to you! It's so inspiring to see your family grow in the rooms and with a powerful faith. I'm so glad you're here, and we have this place to bridge the gap in distance. It was meant to be. The greatest thing here at MIP is seeing that it works across the world! Thanks for sharing your recovery here!
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Thanks for everything. Peace and Love on your journey.
Congratulations sir! You are likewise a tremendous source of inspiration and wisdom to us newbies!
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The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. ---William James
Time is only valuable if we take the opportunities that time gives us. From your posts, it seems evident to me that you've made the most of your time during this journey. Thank you for sharing your anniversary here and sharing your wisdom regularly here.
Thanks to all for helping me to glorify God on my 25th AA anniversary. If it were not friends like you there would have been no recovery for us. Much gratitude goes out to all of you.
Congratulations Gonee, it's amazing what God can do. I really apreciate your posts too. Those years in sobriety give us lessons in life every day. The accumulated wisdom of so many years living sober in this program is priceless. Thank you so much for sharing with us.
On that 1st day two of us put our hands up as newcomers. I relapsed, my friend stayed. I got back a few months later and my friend relapsed. My sponsor and I tried with him for 20 years before he died of multiple organ failure through excessive drinking.
AA book pg 17.
There Is A Solution
"WE, OF ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS know thousands of men and women who were once just as hopeless as Bill. Nearly all have recovered. They have solved the drink problem. We are average Americans. All sections of this country and many of its occupations are represented, as well as many political, economic, social, and religious backgrounds. We are people who normally would not mix. But there exists among us a fellowship, a friendliness, and an understanding which is indescribably wonderful. We are like the passengers of a great liner the moment after rescue from shipwreck when camaraderie, joyousness and democracy pervade the vessel from steerage to Captain's table. Unlike the feelings of the ships passengers, however, our joy in escape from disaster does not subside as we go our individual ways. The feeling of having shared in a common peril is one element in the powerful cement which binds us. But that in itself would never have held us together as we are now joined. The tremendous fact for everyone of us is that we have discovered a common solution. We have a way out on which we can absolutely agree, and upon which we can join in brotherly and harmonious action. This is the great news this book carries to those who suffer from alcoholism."
