Easy Does It - DECEMBER 29 - MEETINGS

[lildee]

Easy Does It - DECEMBER 29 - MEETINGS

I'm slipping when I'm willing to stay away from meetings. -Anonymous

Being in too big a hurry to get well can present problems for us. When we are in a hurry, our eyes focus on the destination, not the Journey. We are anxious to get somewhere, rather than become something. The Fellowship is more like a sailboat than a power boat. The power that propels us is one we have no control over. The controls are somewhere else and the pilot is somebody else.

Meetings are not the means to an end. Meetings are an end themselves, a way of life. Each meeting is its own reward. We hear people talk of a meeting being one stone in the foundation of our recovery. If we have accumulated many of these stones, when temptation come our way, we will have built a good foundation to say no.

Since I am never cured, I remember that "When I want to go to a meeting, I can walk and when I don't I should run. "

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[Lin]

The day I tell ,myself i dont NEED my meetings any more, is the very day i will need them most. Meetigns are my lifeline. They keep me focused until the next meeting. I had to miss the alst 2 weeks due to weather and a holiday commitment. I'm glad I ahd my online meetings to get me through until I can get to the next one.

Meetings to me are like a "fix" of serenity. I always go away from a meeting with at least ONE thing I can use in my life. For some reason i always ahppen to HEAr jsut what i NEED to hear. (and I ahve ben told, I often SAY jsut what another needed to hear. )

LIN