The Importance of Meetings

This is where we find strengh. Espcially in early recovery. When we first arrive in recovery, we know very little about how to change our lives, and have very little hope if any that things will ever get better. We go to meeting a find people actually joking, laughing and having a good time, people smiling and hugging. It seems pretty strange in the beginning. Then we hear people share, sometimes some wonderful things sometimes horrible things. There is sometimes tears , but almost always there are smiles and laughs that usually prevail. After a time you feel a sort of energy or calmness in the rooms.

Here we find the hope and strength. With this human interaction we begin to get "new life", we here from others sharing the courage to carry on the triumph of overcoming life's tragedies, the dignity of the human spirit, the depths of our depravities, and we begin to see we are not the only ones who have reached these levels that had disgusted us that had us full of shame and guilt, we see and hear of others, mostly we see they have found a way out and away to rid this feeling and feel good about life, to enjoy life once more. We begin to feel part of, to be greeting personally with warm hand shakes, hugs and genuine concern and caring. We begin to feel wanted once more.

And then we hear about service work if only just making coffee or opening the meeting, and this begins to give us a feeling of purpose once more, to slowly open that which has been long crushed to feel useful once more. These are what our meeting do for us. After a few days, months years in we sometimes we forget these blessing. We need always remember, what the meeting gave us, and to without our attendance how can this be carried to the person coming in . If your not there!
Remember GOD does not make garbage