•Seeing Andrea pick up her 10 year chip and the outpouring of love from all the people whose lives she’s touched.
•I say this a lot: I am so grateful for all the noises Barkley makes. They bring me so much peace and happiness. They make this quiet house feel full and alive.
•The perseverance that has allowed me to rebuild this beautiful mosaic of my life, one little stone at a time.
•Being able to pick up my chip this morning at the 9:30 meeting that saved my life.
•This program for teaching me how to love myself and others, how to accept help, how to live life on life’s terms.
•God using others to remind me how far I have come.
•Through the Twelve Steps, I have been granted the gift of choice. I am no longer at the mercy of a disease that tells me the only answer is to drink.
•When I am willing to do the right thing, I am rewarded with an inner peace no amount of liquor could ever provide.
•The desperation that saw me give up trying middle of the road solutions and accept spiritual help.
•All the people in my life who have never given up on me. Thank you.
God, thank you for my life.
-M
