Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all.
I should like to encourage you to keep it a sober time.
The way I do it is to stay away from slippery places. I am blessed with
a GREAT Al-anon. She has been with me for 35 years now. We will be at
the Living Faith AA Group Christmas Eve (after church.) We will have
Christmas dinner with our family, i.e. we will be at Living Faith. Our
group has a long tradition of "eating meetings" and we will take
advantage of them. New Year's eve we will be back at LF for some of the
meetings. I say "some of the meetings" because the meetings start at
noon on the 31st and end at one pm on the first! New meeting each hour.
Members take two hour turns keeping the coffee made and welcoming people
in. Bye the bye, ALL meetings will be open. We do not care to cut out
anyone who is "just looking" and is not sure they are one of us.
We make the holidays just what they are supposed to be, a time of joyous
celebrating. While some of our people will go into a funk, we do our
best to bring them out of it.
When I was drinking, the holidays were a time to stay close to home with
my drinking as the amateurs were out and the cops were watching closer.
I did not celebrate, I just got drunk. I did not spend time with my
family, I spent time with my bottle. Now, however, thanks to my Higher
Power, I do celebrate both with my wife and children and also with my AA
family.
SO... Merry Christmas to all and a Happy New Year.
4358 Days and counting.
Jim W.
I know it is a good day because God gave it to me!
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