What Alcoholics Anonymous -- means to me.
Tuesdays and Thursdays are my most favorite days of the week.
On Thursday – I get to speak with my sponsor and spend some time checking in and letting him know about what’s going on in my life, how I’m doing, whether or not I’ve had any problems, whether I’m facing any problems, and I get a chance to listen for some bits of wisdom that’s going to roll out of his mouth. Sometimes – it feels like I’m a little kid waiting for the next Christmas-on-Thursdays to come! I feel so very fortunate to have the opportunity to have a sponsor who causes me to feel that way. I have a sponsor that I can look at – and honestly say in my heart and soul – that he is the best example in all of A.A. , that I want what he has, I want to do what he has done and do what he does, and to be what he is. It’s pretty awesome for this little kid to have a real-live-action Hero that I look up to.
As I think about my sponsor and all that he has done for me – it reminds me of how I need to watch how I live my life, to be thoughtful of what I do, to be careful of what I say, and to try to live my life as the best example that I can be – because someone might be looking at me.
And, when I think about all that Alcoholics Anonymous has done for me – and done to me – and is doing through me – sometimes, it brings those tears of gratitude to my eyes – as I recognize how truly lucky that I am to have had this awesome opportunity – to be a member of A.A.
As I survey my own transformation – of thoughts, and attitudes, and living, and life, and actions – that has been brought about by the program of Alcoholics Anonymous, the Fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous, and a Loving God, and a wise Sponsor who lives his life as an example for me to follow – and as I survey the transformations that A.A. brings about in others – I feel like the highest achievement that I could ever have achieved in this life – is that I am a member of Alcoholics Anonymous.
I’m proud of A.A. I am proud of all that A.A. has done and is doing. It has saved the lives – and given new lives to hundreds of thousands of suffering alcoholics – who were at a hopeless place of either being locked up forever, killing themselves, or drinking their lives to the point of insanity and death.
I’m proud to be a tiny little particle – a molecule – of the goodness and rescue and remedy and solution, and an answer to millions of prayers – of the non-alcoholics whose lives have been afflicted by the alcoholics and their alcoholism. The mothers and fathers. Brothers and sisters. Husbands and wives. Lovers and companions. And, all the little children in the world – who have suffered not because of anything that they have done – but simply because they have been affected by the lives of practicing alcoholics who have not yet found recovery. And, also the little children who are to come in the future -- those that have not been born yet – that their parents, and brothers and sisters and neighbors, and future teachers – and all of those who will affect their lives – will have had the same opportunity that I have received – to become a sober and sane member of Alcoholics Anonymous.
There is a solution – and we have it. We, of Alcoholics Anonymous have a real solution. A solution with a solid foundation and history of over Seventy Two years of success. A solution that has brought new life and a new hope to every single continent on the planet. A solution that has not only helped to save the lives of individual alcoholics – but a solution that has touched the lives of world leaders – Presidents, Vice-presidents, First Ladies, Senators – Congressmen, and Judges who rule the highest courts of our Land.
We have a solution – that has brought new hope to employers who’s businesses have been negatively affected by the alcoholics and their alcoholism – and we have sent them replacements – by sending them sober and recovered alcoholics – who most often – do the work of several employees – simply because they are practicing the principles of recovery in all of their affairs.
We have a solution – that has brought about new hope and new life in communities, in churches, in hospitals, and doctors and professionals – in organizations, not to mention – the “otherâ€
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That's what convinced me that I was alcoholic. Not being able to leave alcohol alone, with or without A.A. help -- convinced me that I was alcoholic. And, that I was going to need all that A.A. had to offer me -- a Higher Power (which later became a God that I could understand), a Sponsor, the 12 Steps, the Big Book, the other A.A. members, the A.A. meetings, and to get into the actions of participating in A.A. (which was to participate in my own recovery).
And, if there was their weird twisted God that did help drunks in A.A. -- then, I had better get my butt into A.A., IF I was ever to have a chance at having that God help me.
