Meetings keep us in touch with where we've been, but more importantly with where we could go in our recovery. Meeting makers make meetings
In many ways, alcoholics are different. When we came to recovery meetings we found others like ourselves, people who understood us and whom we could understand. No longer did we feel like aliens, strangers wherever we went. We were at home in recovery meetings, among friends.
We don't stop being alcoholics after we've been sober awhile. We still need to identify with other alcoholics. We continue coming to recovery meetings to keep in touch with who we are, where we've come from, and where we're going. Every meeting reminds us that we can never drink alcohol successfully. Every meeting reminds us that we'll never be cured, but that by practicing the principles of the program we can recover. And every meeting offers us the experience and example of other alcoholics in ongoing recovery.
At meetings, we see how different people work their program, and the results are apparent in their lives. If we want the lives we see others living, we can find out what they've done to get where they are. Recovery meetings offer us identification with where we've been and where we can go--identification we can't do without and can't get anywhere else. That keeps us coming back.
Just for Today: I will attend a recovery meeting to remind myself of who I am, where I've come from, and where I can go in my recovery.