Good morning all.  I recently passed the 10 month mark and I'm feeling great.   My life has been pretty stressful over the past 2 months (marriage, finances, school starting) and I discovered that I am starting to understand how to live life sober and on life's terms.   My spiritual state is stronger than its ever been and my HP has shown me just how He is saving my life and making it better.   I've been put in circumstances where challenges with anger have been very real and my HP helped me through it - just wish I would have been more ready to take on the anger before I blew up and ended up needing to make amends right then and there, but that was pretty insightful as well.  I'm officially chairing a meeting tomorrow morning for the first time (have chaired 1 other when I popped in to it and we discovered that no one was signed up and that I had over 6 months sober at the time so was tossed the folder and asked to chair) and have a topic picked out - the anger and the grouch - and hope that someone shows up with a key.

Anyhoo, I just wanted to share that life is so much better than it was 10 months ago and that my relationship with God continues to amaze and humble me.  The good news is that over the past 2 months, I've finally had to deal with my emotions, because I actually felt them and spent time crying, laughing, pondering, praying, etc.  The bad news is that I finally had to deal with my emotions straight on.  Through it all, I only had a single thought of drinking and it passed pretty quickly.  Living life in steps 10 and 11  right now has been pretty cool.  I even went to church for the first time in over 4 years and let me tell you, hearing "How Great Thou Art" opened up the waterworks.