Celebration of AA Birthdays

I belong to a rather small group, about 14 regular members.  We always celebrate varying years of sobriety on the last Sunday of the month.  During the summer months, some of our members prepare food and we invite friends, spouses and loved ones to come along, eat, then listen to a speaker.  We always ask someone from outside our group to come and tell their story, and afterwards we recognize the birthdays for that month.

On the first of each month, we get the phone list and write the members names’ and sobriety birthday for each member having a birthday that month, along with how many years of sobriety they have.  When I saw this month’s tally in years of sobriety my jaw dropped and I was almost overwhelmed with gratitude to be a part of something so wonderful.

The magic number was 54!

Gratitude

There is almost nothing that gives as much gratitude than feeling the trembling hand of the new man through the Lords Prayer at the close of a meeting…

I often get caught up in my daily routines, I forget where I came from, I forget that where I’m at doesn’t look a THING like where I was.  Everything I have today I owe to Alcoholics Anonymous.