Friday

I got to speak at a Friday night meeting this past Friday. It was a lesson. The most noticeable issue was that there were only two other people in the meeting who got to recovery before I did. The other side is that many people who came into recovery after me, are still here. That shows me that it still works. The thing that amazed me the most, is that after the meeting was over everyone left and only 4 of us stayed to pickup chairs. Sometimes that is how recovery is these days. Many of the kids that were there that night are young, very young. What is beautiful is they are enthusiastic about recovery. They are seeing what I saw when I got clean and sober which is that you can have fun, laugh and have a life.

When we hit bottom, many of us lose everything. What we really lose is ourselves. You can get 'stuff' back. If you don't get you back then all the 'stuff' doesn't matter and you can lose the 'stuff' and you in a heart beat.

I am grateful to be clean today.