People ask me, “You have been sober for quite a while now. Are you still an alcoholic?”
“Why do you still go to meetings?”
My answers are: Yes, and to STAY sober and help others to get sober and stay sober.
I am an alcoholic in recovery.
That is not so much who I am, as where I have been.
My past is what makes me who I am today. I don’t have to react to circumstances anymore by using alcohol to help me cope or to check out. That is old behavior. I get to show up for you and me in a whole new way and be of service.
I am an alcoholic in recovery—Now I get to respond to the challenges God has placed before me with new behavior solutions—prayer, telling the truth, huddling up with others like myself who need support, serving, and reaching out a hand where that hand reached out to me in my hour of need.
God relieved my obsession to drink.
I go to meetings to hear God speak to me through people as they share their stories of recovery and to be of service to other alcoholics in the room.
It’s working. I hope you join me.
“My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.”
John 10:27
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