[nandm]

I did 90 meetings in 90 days when I first started this program and I am still here after almost 7 years (March 13).

Currently I go to my homegroup once a week, as well as at least one or two others depending on the week. So I attend between one and two meetings a week and I still know that it would not hurt me at all to attend more.

I have learned that meetings are a place where I can recharge and sometimes I need my batteries recharged more often than others as some weeks take more out of me than others.

Meetings serve several purposes:

• a place where a newcomer can come to start the program
• a place for fellowship
• a place to learn about the Big Book
• a place to learn about the Steps
• a place to learn about the Principles
• a safe place to be
• a place to share experience, strength, and hope
• a place to recieve experience, strength, and hope
• a place to be of service (taking trash out, emptying ash trays, serving coffee, etc..)
• a place to call home, where people call when they see your are not there to make sure you are ok
• a place to celebrate recovery
• a place to celebrate gratitude
• and the list could go on endlessly

I guess the point of what I am trying to say is that meetings are an integral part of my sobriety. But of course they are not all of my sobriety. I have to balance meetings with every day life, working the steps, working with newcomers, work, school, etc.....