My_1st_AA_mtg

[PaulL]

Hi, my name's Paul. I'm an alcoholic. It's been 6 months since my last... post :-) (and 19 months since my last drink)

And so yes, I FINALLY went to my first meeting. How refreshing the honesty! It was just as I imagined it would be: broken people admitting it and sharing excerpts from their journeys back to wholeness!

As a practicing Christian, how sad I am that Christians can't meet together with this same humility, brokenness and support! (instead, we are supposed to have it all together! ..what a joke and a lie. :-(

Well, I don't recognize most names here (A couple like Sugah). Thankfully Carol is still here :-)

Best wishes to all. This site was so helpful to me during my first 6 months.

Paul

[Boleo]

Originally Posted by PaulL

...sad I am that Christians can't meet together with this same humility, brokenness and support!

I don't know if there are any Christian based Recovery meetings in your city but where I live there are "Alcoholics for Christ" and "Celebrate Recovery" meetings in addition to hundreds of AA meetings.

I would not say they are better than AA but you do get to talk about the Bible and J.C.

The bad news is they don't want to here any mention of the Big Book or
Bill W.

[barb dwyer]

I'm glad you got something from your first meeting.
Thanks for sharing that.

And yes, I've been in some meetings when something
'busted loose' for someone
and the meeting took on this whole
surreal .... real-ness.

Those are the times,
for me
that I know without doubt
and without need to prove
that Something Greater Than Myself
not only exists ...

but on occasion goes to a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous.

Welcome to the Fellowship!

[CarolD]

Good to see you are doing well Paul.....
Welcome back to SR

My home group meets at 11 a.m. on Sunday
mny members attend early church services of their religion
and show up for our AA meeting as well.

Yes! you can use both if you choose.

Blessings to you and your wife.

[NoMoBeer]

Hey Paul!
I remember you from the boards (I am infrequent as well)...

Congrats on your first meeting! God laid out a great path for me as well... first He used AA to help me find Him (even though I was the one who was lost!)... then I found a relationship with Christ. Pretty amazing.

I am a huge believer (pun intended) that I, as an alcoholic, need the 12 steps and program of AA to keep my sobriety.... I heard someone say 'you go to church to be saved, you go to AA to be sober.' True true.

God bless and keep coming back!

NMB

[caleb76]

Originally Posted by PaulL

Hi, my name's Paul. I'm an alcoholic. It's been 6 months since my last... post :-) (and 19 months since my last drink)

And so yes, I FINALLY went to my first meeting. How refreshing the honesty! It was just as I imagined it would be: broken people admitting it and sharing excerpts from their journeys back to wholeness!

As a practicing Christian, how sad I am that Christians can't meet together with this same humility, brokenness and support! (instead, we are supposed to have it all together! ..what a joke and a lie. :-(

Well, I don't recognize most names here (A couple like Sugah). Thankfully Carol is still here :-)

Best wishes to all. This site was so helpful to me during my first 6 months.

Paul

I have been going to AA meetings for several months now. Last night, I attended my home group meeting. Mid way through the meeting I felt like a major weight had been lifted after hearing people share. This feeling happens often to me.

I love AA.