AA Big Book Quote 4/8

[Justme57]

I went to a meeting to see for myself this group of freaks or bums who had done this thing. To go into a gathering of people was the sort of thing , that all my life , from the time I left my private world of books and dreams to meet the real world of people and parties and jobs, had left me feeling an uncomfortable , needing the warming stimulus of drinks to join in. I went trembling into a house in Brooklyn filled with strangers......... and I found I had come home at last, to my own kind. There is another meaning for the Hebrew word that in the King James version of the Bible is translated " salvation". It is "to come home". I had found my salvation. I wasn't alone anymore.

BB 3rd edition p 228


Hugx
Lee

[collinsmi]

What a great quote Lee! It is true, though I couldn't see it until I was ready to look...

[Janet L]

Thanks, Lee

I can so relate. I used to think people were a bit odd when they introduced themselves as grateful recovering alcoholics. But that was before I really understood the point of AA, which to me is to be able to live a happy, useful life. Even if I wasn't drinking, without the program, I would be restless, irritable, and discontent. But through AA I've found my salvation; my home is with my AA family