Today I Am Happy Joyous and Free
“I had many ups and downs in my time in the Fellowship, but I have never needed to lift that first fatal drink”
My name is Rhoda, and I am a very grateful alcoholic, recovering one day at a time. I have just celebrated 29 years of sobriety on 30 October.
I am so ashamed that this is the first time I have put pen to paper. Every year I say I must write an article. Sitting today at the Lochaber Convention, I was inspired to start writing an article.
In my first two years in the Fellowship, the only things I could read and take in were the Just for Today card and the Roundabout. The help and the hope I received from them was second to none.
I got sober in my then home group, Tuesday Night Queen Street, Stirling. I am forever grateful to the group and the members who attended during my time there. I had many ups and downs in my time in the Fellowship, but I have never needed to lift that first fatal drink.
I came into AA very broken. I was unwell spiritually, physically and mentally. By the grace of a Higher Power and the AA Programme, I have managed to follow the suggestions (most of the time) to get well just for today.
So, today I am happy, joyous and free, but even better: for the first time in my life, I fit happily in my own skin.
I wish anyone reading this all the very best, and that hopefully, you too can experience the hope I got from that first meeting and still experience today. For this I am, and will be, forever grateful.
Rhoda
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