Life, that is!
How could anything be this good? Money can’t buy it? A thief couldn’t steal? You’d have to go a long way to convince me that this could be anything that I could have.
After all, my money took a poof pill and disappeared when I was drinking. i was just beginning to get my head on straight. Besides that, I had nothing worth stealing, either.
Iwas physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually bankrupt when I came into the AA Program. But I was willing to go to ANY lengths to get into the program because of the good changes I had seen in many AA members who I had romped and stomped with before.
Really working my program to the best of my ability in ALL of my affairs, I discovered that I was becoming an entirely different person. One who loved was loved, cared, interested in so much, and not hurting a soul.
And, as time went on, this was only the beginning. EVERYTHING that I have today I owe to the program of AA, including breathing in followed by out. I still do not have monetary riches but I am a very wealthy man.
I have children that no longer fear me, and actually love me openly. My wife, before she passed, had never seen me drink and gave me a family life that I never had even as a child.
A clear mind that seems to have the right answer to most problems, no matter how complicated. If I wake up in the middle of the night it is to go to the bathroom, not because I am bothered by anything.
Every Saturday morning, I text our children, grandchildren, some friends, and other relatives to let them know that they are being thought of. And have for a couple of years and get responses from most of them.
On the rare occasion that I am late sending the weekly text, some even contact me to see if all is well. WOW! My sobriety means EVERYTHING to me. Without it, I am the same person I was when entering the program, a walking dead man.
Iam alive and, as long as I continue working on my program to the best of my ability, I intend on staying that way. How did I get my sobriety and how do I plan on keeping it?
By working my program to the best of my ability, not only during meetings but also in my everyday affairs 24/7/365. AA introduced me to my Higher Power, who I now call God.
And how do I do this, work my program? I continue doing what I see is the next right thing, 24/7/365. Easy? No way! Simple? Couldn’t be simpler!
To disagree with a popular phrase, God is not my copilot. God is my pilot and, as long as I remember this and act accordingly, I will be able to continue to meet with you and others like you in AA and everywhere, and, most assuredly, I will continue being too blessed to be stressed.
This, my friends, makes me a very wealthy man. I have so much wealth in peace and serenity that money can not buy and thieves can not steal it.
My prayer is that I may be able to share and spread as much of this newfound wealth to as many as I can so that you too can be happy, joyous, and free. Even more than I.
Why more? Because, if you were able to have even more happiness, joy, and freedom than I, it would give me something that I could shoot for. Wouldn’t this be a wonderful world if we could all love this way? Thank you, God!
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