[TonyB]

Thanks for that Jim,
For me, my biggest challenge is to not be apart of the drama and to not perpetuate the self licking ice-cream it can cause. It’s hard though man! There are a lot of sick people in AA and they do a lot of sick things. I had to learn to keep my nose in my own yard and not get swept up in the bull.
One of my favorite things that happened at a meeting was this one time a guy was in there bla bla blaing about someone else’s drama. Then this old timer raised his hand and asked the guy what was “his part” in all of that. It shut him right up. That was the thing, it didn’t have anything to do with him.
If I get rubbed by someone in the halls, I do my best to keep it between that person and myself. I don’t have to run around and shoot my mouth off. That’s another trick I used to pull when I was drinking. Then if you tried to call me on it, that gave me justification to push your face in. Real nice guy, eh?
I do thank God for this program. Who knows where I would be… Jail, Nuthouse or dead….
Sometimes I have to remind myself that people are at different stages of their recovery. My charge is to try to help them (if they want it) to progress in their recovery. To give them a little piece of that HOPE that was given to me. To show them the love that my God has given me. We should all strive to live the St. Francis prayer….
Enough out of me.