The Promises
Last Updated on Friday, 17 April 2009 10:02 Wednesday, 15 April 2009 11:56
I did spend much of my weekend as said chicken but, it was so gratifying to have complete strangers hug me and genuinely thank me for my service. The whole time I thought service was taking away from my enjoyment of the conference, it was really magnifying it ten-fold.
I was one of those "balkers" who did not quite grasp the concept or the importance of "being a part of", until now. I have been to 5 meetings in the 3 days since the conference ended and I am attending another tonight. I cannot get close enough to AA. I feel a new connection with people in the program that I had not felt up until this point. Hearing amazing speakers sharing the message that was passed onto them by our collective higher power, seeing people really care about one another in a way that we don't ever see "in the real world", listening to my even more newly sober friends tell me that they "just didn't get it" before this weekend but, now they understand and just being in a room with hundreds of other alcoholics with hundreds of collective years of sobriety...all of this has changed me in a way I had not thought possible. I feel like I have what it was I wanted when I came into the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous. Those promises are coming true and I have an unbreakable faith that God has done and will continue doing for me what I could not do for myself.
From the bottom of me heart and the depths of my soul...Thank you everyone who help put this together and everyone who suited up and showed up. Thank you committee, thank you speakers, thank you every last sober alcoholic who passed through the Omni Hotel this weekend. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!!!!!!! I will never forget it!
