What to do with an old airplane motor

[toad]

share this with me...............

[Hurricane]

It's Creative anyway.


Don't know where this came from, but it was sent to me.
Could be out of a grapevine issue.

Sometime in the early 1990's I was treating a woman in
an intensive outpatient chemical dependency group.
Let's call her 'Grace.' Grace was a flight attendant
and had been suspended from her job with a major
airline due to her untreated alcoholism. She had been
stealing the little miniature liquor bottles and
drinking in airport bars in uniform, etc. Her
employer, realizing she needed treatment sent her to
us.

After the eight week program, I suggested to her it
might be a good idea to solidify her foundation in
recovery before returning to work as she would be
working in a high-risk environment (serving alcohol,
being out of town alone, etc. ). Grace did, however,
return to work shortly after completing outpatient
treatment. One day while she was departing from a
plane at the end of long day a major craving for
alcohol overpowered her. There she was, in the Los
Angeles International Airport pulling her roller-bag
behind her when this massive craving to drink came
over her. She tried to just 'think through it,' or
'just forget about it,' but it was way too powerful.
It was so powerful, in fact, that she had resigned to
herself that she would just go drink. Grace thought,
Oh, heck with it, I'll get another job; or maybe no
one will find out anyway.' But deep down inside Grace
did not want to drink. She truly had wanted to stay
sober, but she was in trouble.

On her way to the bar in the airport, Grace had a
moment of sanity.
She stopped, picked up the airport paging phone and
said, 'Will you please page friends of Bill W.,' she
paused, quickly looking around for an empty gate, ³to
come to Gate 12?' Within minutes, over the paging
system in the LA International Airport came, 'Will
friends of Bill W. please come to Gate 12. Will
friends of Bill W. please come to Gate12.' Most
people in recovery know that asking if you are a
friend of Bill W. is an anonymous way to identify
yourself as a member of AA.

In less than five minutes there were about fifteen
people at that gate from all over the world. That
brought tears of amazement, relief and joy to Grace.
They had a little meeting there in that empty gate,
total strangers prior to that moment. Grace
discovered that two of those people had gotten out of
their boarding lines and missed their flights to
answer that call for help. They had remembered what
they had seen on many walls of meeting rooms: 'When
anyone, anywhere reaches out their hand for help, I
want the hand of AA always to be there and for that I
am responsible. ' Grace did not drink that day. I
would venture to guess that none of the people who
came to Gate 12 drank that day either. Instead Grace
had a moment of sanity, realized she could not do it
on her own, took the action of asking for help and
received it immediately. This help is available to
all of us if we want it and sincerely ask for it. It
never fails

[recoveringnky]

The power of this program....it's amazing!!! Thanks for sharing that!! I haven't made enough meetings this week and I'm feeling it!! I really, really needed to read that. That's why I love this forum....it always provides for me what I need!!!

HUGS,
Kym