Good afternoon, dear reader(s), today is a very special day: my 6th year sober anniversary! Six years of continual abstinence from all substances, and I must say I am feeling very proud of myself. My dear friend Katie mailed me a beautiful turquoise commemorative AA coin that I will be carrying in my wallet. Tonight I have Shawn’s sponsees Zoom, and I will be announcing to everyone my milestone. What better people to share this with I do not know. Shawn has a coin for me as well that I will be getting from him tomorrow.
How grateful I am for my AA! Took me awhile to get back, many bumps in the road, relapses and mental illness and hospital stays. But I’m home now, right where I need to be. I went to my first in-person AA meeting last night, at least in a long while, and it was wonderful to see all the people and get hugs from friends I have known for three years but only through Zoom. I was nervous when I first walked in the room, but all of that faded away when I saw the smiling faces and coffee being served, and the familiar folding chairs in a circle.
Michael has six years of sobriety too, his anniversary is sometime in March. He doesn’t attend AA, but that’s fine with me. Whatever works, go with it. I do chuckle though to see him get such delight with my AA coins—I think he sees them as for him too, and I’m happy to share them. Thank God for our mutual sobriety, it saved our marriage, and even though we have our problems, at least the booze is removed and that makes everything so much better. God, am I grateful for this!
No big plans for today, it’s rainy and cold out, I’m marinating a chicken in homemade Green Goddess dressing to roast in the oven tonight. I’m going to work on my third writing assignment for our group, which is to write about where you think you’ll be in the future. I’m going to discuss my drive to be an artist, my plans for the art show later this month, trepidations yet excitements I have. I’m really coming to love my writing group, it’s me and three guys from AA who are wonderful and extremely talented. What a blessing that it was established, thanks to Shawn who realized several of his sponsees were writers, and suggested we start a group.
OK, it’s just past 1:00 p.m. and I’m still in a bathrobe…maybe I better head upstairs and get dressed. I’m feeling spectacularly lazy today, like it’s my special day to take things slow, enjoy the moments, just be. I guess I just feel this overwhelming sense of gratitude, I feel peaceful, I feel like everything is turning out the way it’s meant to be. Here’s to May 1st. I made it. One Day At A Time!
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