Awareness...

God has given me a gift through this program. 

I have witnessed terrible, tragic things in just my short time working with alcoholics and addicts. 

I know what it is like to watch people you love die.

I have experienced the heartbreak of watching someone turn away from the gift offered to them by sobriety.

I have seen others lives changed completely, by the Power of God.

But the one thing, the most important thing, the only thing of value I have today is the consciousness of the presence of God.

He has opened my eyes, He has given me the ability to see His Power displayed in a thousand different ways, by a thousand different people. 

The age of miracles is still with us. We see them and experience them everyday.

The brief periods of time when I get to experience His vision without the scales of pride, prejudice, and judgment, are so illuminating, so precious, that I stand amazed.

To keep experiencing this, I must take action, I must turn away from self and outward toward my fellow travelers, and I must do this in all areas of my life.

I wish for you my friend, whoever you are, these little glimpses of peace and joy.

And for my friends that are no longer here...

I promise your memory will not die, your stories will be used to help the next person.  You did not die in vain.  God is everything, and nothing, absolutely nothing happens in this world by mistake.  But I suppose you realize that already....


BB pg 16  "An alcoholic in his cups is an unlovely creature.  Our struggles with them are variously strenuous, comic, and tragic......   Faith has to work 24 hour a day in and through us, or we perish....
Each day my friend's simple talk in our kitchen multiplies itself in a widening circle of peace on earth and good will towards men....

Join us, take your rightful place in the trench, we need you...