My thought for today is Hope. I remember when I decided to stop drinking in 1997, I had the clothes I was wearing and I had a copy of a bible. For most of my life, I had considered myself an atheist, yet I had kept that bible. Throwing it away didn't seem like the right thing to do. I was homeless back then, but even when I slept in a snowbank with a rock for a pillow and a newspaper for a blanket, God wasn't that far from me. I also had hope that if I tried one more time, with God, to stop drinking and if I went to those damn meetings and followed the direction of my sponsor, then I might just be okay. I was under the bridge almost two months until I made my way into a transition house and stayed there a couple of months. I still went to meetings and I still tried to follow the direction and guidance of my sponsor and of God. Gradually, I became sober and stayed sober. that was almost 29 years ago and these days I share that story with new people who are struggling as was I to come to terms with their situation. That is the hope I bring to them, that if I did it, they can do it.
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