HISTORY.
His Story. The past.
The hearing of another person tell their history becomes part of my story when I listen to it today in the present. In hearing it, we can find the hope for the future—that there is a way out of it.
Out of addiction. Out of the patterns and behaviors that keep us stuck and without hope.
This is why I love meetings. Telling our story out loud in a meeting is the magic part. The details of our stories are vastly different. But, the general thoughts and behaviors are the same. I can find things to identify with that help me know that I am not alone in my struggle.
I heard a woman say in a meeting, that she didn’t come here to find a “design for living” she started coming to meetings because: she could not stop drinking and maybe these people all knew something she didn’t. We don’t get to recovery meetings on a “winning streak.” We get here because our life is not working the way we are living it. We came to find a new solution other than alcohol or drugs for our lives.
The magic of what we find in recovery is each other—connection.
When you tell me you have experienced coming out to the other side of addiction without using alcohol or drugs—you help me. When you get your sobriety chip or a certain number of days, it is a celebration. For you. And for me.
It becomes my story. Your victory is mine too—together we celebrate that it can be done in community. We find that actually taking these 12-steps becomes a “design for living” and after going through them with our sponsor, we realize that we can also show others the way.
Your victory story, tells me I can do it, too. I also hear God’s voice speak to me through you in meetings. That is service on your part and you don’t even know it in that moment. That’s why I have to show up for others. For them to hear God’s voice through me.
I want to celebrate our victory together, so we can live this life sober and free—Together.
Come and join us.
"And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another.”
Hebrews 10:24-25
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