This time next week….
Reunion is almost here! I can already feel the power of recovery! I can’t wait to sit on the lawn while listening to great speakers, getting together Saturday night for the alumni parties and then the Sunday morning meditation on Serenity Hill. This weekend is always a small booster shot to my recovery and a way to connect to where it all began. Check out the schedule here or scan the tag below.
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Cup of Joe, by Mr. Joe Hartwell
Good morning Alumni,
Well, the Hill Country Round-Up was awesome! It was a joy to see so many of you there. The theme of the convention was “We are not a glum lot” and it was anything but glum with all the great speakers, food, fun, and fellowship. I love conventions! It’s a great time to reunite with old friends and meet new ones. We cooked over 800 hot dogs at the alumni hospitality suite during the convention. I want to thank everyone who helped out setting up and breaking down everything— I couldn’t have done it without you. I spoke to the Austin Alumni last Wednesday night; those guys really know how to make a guy feel at home. Don’t forget Reunion!
Peace, love, Joe
Unavoidable Roller Coaster
Sobriety is nothing like I thought it would be. At first, it was one big emotional roller coaster, full of sharp highs and deep lows. My emotions were new, untested, and I wasn’t entirely certain I wanted to deal with them. I cried when I should have been laughing. I laughed when I should have cried. Events I thought were the end of the world turned out to be gifts. It was all very confusing. Slowly things began to even out. As I began to take the steps of recovery, my role in the pitiful condition of my life became clear. - Alcoholics Anonymous, pp. 316-317 (www.aaonline.net)
Bill Wilson said when you feel terrible work with another alcoholic never fails. When not if. We sometimes get sober and think we are doing it wrong when it doesn’t feel good. Emotions are a part of life whether you are alcoholic/addict or not. Trust the process.
An NA Message from Dwayne M.
Preface to the First Edition
“The full fruit of the labor of love lives in the harvest, and that always comes in its right season…”
The material for this book has been drawn from the personal experience of addicts within the fellowship of Narcotics Anonymous.
Pg. xxi
“Being a member of Narcotics Anonymous” – In the beginning this statement really helped me to understand that recovery is a process and not an event. Reading that first sentence and knowing that people had been where I had been, lived like I lived, done what I had done, and felt what I had felt, gave me that first bit of Hope that was needed to help me to keep reading the literature.
Dwayne M., La Hacienda, Inquiry Call Center
