[barb dwyer]

hi!

I had one of those meetings today.
You know the kind I'm talking about ...
the ones where you leave thinking
"I'm so glad I wound up here."

I'm actually glad to know the people I've met in recovery.
It hit me pretty hard this evening in there.
I can't really discuss *what* someone talked about -
but it was the watching everyone rally around this person
and seeing that person take comfort from their shares;
that made me feel so very full in my heart,
it was almost unbearable, the gratitude.

Just made me stop and thank The Infinite
for casting me into the clutches of AA.
I was so broken.
So hopeless.
So empty.


Maybe every now and then,
the miracle of survival
is overshadowed
by the miracle of recovery.
And I'm sure it made the others wonder
why I was sitting there, grinning like an ape.



We hear it over and over, don't we?
People come in to AA
thinking it's the worst thing in the world
that could have happened to them.
To have to be in AA.

It's been the very Grace of God
that brought me there.
And I'm proud to know us.

AA has been the best thing
to ever happen to me.

just needed to share that.
Thanks for reading.