Wow!

It has been so long since I got on here. So much time, and so much "stuff" has gone on over the last 11 months.

I am now on step 6. What a road! I also had the privellege of starting a badly needed new meeting in our town; Tuesday night Men's Fellowship meeting! It has been a lot of fun. The camaraderie in this meeting is great. I am the literature person for the Saturday night meeting. We now have a total of six meetings in town, up from the two a week we had last year at this time!

The fellowship has grown, but there is still a need for trusted servants. GSR's are in big need. We have a lot of new comers in the meetings and the message of recovery is being clearly carried. I am blessed to be a part of the fellowship.

I have been working on sharing my spiritual relationship more clearly in my message. God has been so good to me in his love and care for me. Sharing that relationship with others is such a blessing to me. I think it is helpful to others as well.

Personally, The greatest single thing that this program has given me over the last 14 months is a relationship with my Heavenly Father through Christ Jesus his son. The steps have opened my heart and my mind to so many things in my life, good and bad.

The steps have allowed me to open up, uncover, and bring into the light of the day my deepest secrets, failures, and fears; I have had the privelidge of sharing all these things with my God, my self, and another trusted friend- my sponsor. I have let go and turned over to God the resentments that I had allowed to keep me trapped in the past, angry with the present, and fearful of the future.

Today, I can honestly say that I am free to live each day with hope for the future, forgivenes for the past, and love for the present. I am free from my secrets, and need never have another, for as long as I choose.

My life today is full! I am blessed, and tired! Difficulties still come to me. Financial, health, concern for loved ones; But at no point do I ever go through anything alone. I have my God, my friends in the program, my family, and my confidence in this new way of life- all of these carry me through without ever having to put anything in my body to medicate my emotions or my spirit.

The long and the short of it is- "this program works, if you work it"!

Thanks be to God!