Sunday morning version "AA By The Bay"...more than just a meeting a reacquaintance of several levels.   Some one led it off on the Daily Reflection and we chipped a member who had been out of the area and not drinking for 3 years.  He remade the acquaintance of so many members he has not seen for a while...we passed around his chip...holding it and blessing it with our prayers, meditation and best wishes.  Then the sharing started by the "slippers...the relapsers" of what it was like for them when they stayed out of the rooms and away from the miracle of recovery.  I hang close to these people because they know the signs clearly...they can remember what it was like and they can and will tell me "What happened and what it was like" which is invalueable for me because I know I am powerless still.  They spoke into the fellowship and while we could hear the sound of the surf around us we heard the message louder and clearer and I felt hugely grateful to my HP for placing me where I am at and surrounding me with family who can and will help me stay sober as I will it.  Toward the end of the meeting a woman member who I haven't seen as often started to speak. I know the sound of her voice instinctively and the style of her message and another voice over rode her's, "Get up and move" is what I was told and it wasn't from a member in the meeting it was from my deceased early sponsor who was there and surely listening also.  I was getting an early message over again.  Early in our relationship Don T suggested that I always move toward  the message which could save my life and I did what I was told.  I would leave my seat and move closer to the talker and then stand quietly and listen and so I hear him this morning and I did it again and she spoke of slipping into egotistical wrongful assurances as I decribe it...the self assurances that says "I got it...I can relax for a while" and the consequences for her was that the reality is that we never "always have it" and she began to predict her future and see current crises turning into chaos should she relax her program.  I left the house this morning for that meeting with that message and got the message more clearly defined...just for me.  "Get up and move" for real because reality is no matter how many tools HP makes available to me to gain and maintain my sobriety...I have to do the work. This is a "Do" program and what happens to me, for me, in the process and the end are my consequences...for that...I am responsible.   The gal came over after the meeting was done and mention "It surprises me that even with the sound of the surf and some of the other noises...I could hear your message clearly and I'm grateful".   I works like this.   I'm grateful.   Mahalo Don T