An experience you must not miss

Practical experience shows that nothing will so much insure immunity from drinking as intensive work with other alcoholics. It works when other activities fail. This is our twelfth suggestion: Carry this message to other alcoholics! You can help when no one else can. You can secure their confidence when others fail. Remember they are very ill.

Life will take on new meaning. To watch people recover, to see them help others, to watch loneliness vanish, to see a fellowship grow up about you, to have a host of friends -- this is an experience you must not miss. We know you will not want to miss it. Frequent contact with newcomers and with each other is the bright spot of our lives.
Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th edition, page 89

todAAy i AAm grAAteful & thAAnkful

that as I near the end my 3rd year of sobriety, nothing furthers my progress in recovery more than working one-on-one with another alcoholic

that I finished officially working the Steps for the first time with a sponsee yesterday

that Steph was finally able to post; drop by and say HI!

that Scott and I leave for NYC this morning with some basic plans, first and foremost to attend AA meetings each day whilst there

that we'll also be dropping by backstage at The Met, Hell's Kitchen (to be with a fellow blogger), Yankee Stadium, The Village (to be with another fellow blogger)

for all of my Earth-bound blogging friends, near & far, sober and not

Happiness is the delicate balance between what one is and what one has. -F. H. Denison