Quote of the week

[Rowan]

A friend in the program emailed this to me this morning:

"The reason the program works is because we're not all crazy on the same day."

After I was in recovery a few years, I remember hearing some people sharing and thinking they were still clearly out of their minds. This scared me because I realized I relied on them to save my life. A week later, I remember sharing some of my own stuff and also realized that I, too, probably sounded kind of crazy as well. And that's when I heard this week's quote.

This quote means many things to me. To start with, it reminds me I still have the disease of addiction, and that my thinking will always be affected by it. It also reminds me that in the rooms I have the freedom to be myself - whatever that happens to be that day. In fact the saying, "Do you want to save your ass or your face", has literally saved my life a few times. It also reminds me "the reason we're all here is because we're not all there."

The hope and strength I take from these sayings is that alone I can't, but together we can. Together we make up the mosaic that is recovery and despite those times when I still feel a little crazy, I am comforted as I see the miracle still taking place in your life. Someone once said that he only needed one meeting a week, but went to five because he never knew which one it was going to be.

Thank God the voice of recovery speaks through us all, one day at a time.

[Astro]

Originally Posted by Rowan

Someone once said that he only needed one meeting a week, but went to five because he never knew which one it was going to be.

Exactly what I needed to hear today!

I've been bored at meetings, sick of doing service work, burned out on the program lately. But I make those meetings every day, I need to be there because I'm the crazy one at the moment!

[stone]

Something that is starting to sink in is how the program (and meetings) is necessary after we quit, for me anyway.

I didn't drink like I did cos I was addicted to alcohol I drank like that because something isn't quite right in my head, lol. And the more I used drugs and to a greater extent alcohol, the more they became my way of coping/self medicating. Take them away and where is medication? The medication that kills me and destroys my life. The medication that has done more harm than good for over a decade or more.

"the reason we're all here is because we're not all there." LOL, I heard that in a meeting today for the first time.

Now I am going to more meetings I am starting to feel more a part of AA and it is helping.

[Tazman53]

Someone once said that he only needed one meeting a week, but went to five because he never knew which one it was going to be.

In my home group one of the old timers shared about when he had about a year sober he asked his sponsor if he felt it was really neccessary for him to go to at least a meeting a day? His sponsor told him..."Heck no, you are doing so well right now I feel you only need one meeting a week!" He asked his sponsor "Which one should I go to?", his sponsor replied "Heck I don't know, if you go to enough every week though you will be sure not to miss the one you do need to attend."

He said at that time he was still pretty squirrely so the advice his sponsor gave him at the time was just what he needed, he shared he has cut back the number of meetings he attends since then.