Sunday, June 21, 2009

Heard at a meeting - 090621

(a paraphrase)
"I tried everything to fill that 'god shaped hole' in me: relationships, sex, money, jobs, status, booze, drugs, family, activity, work, food, shopping, children, exercise, status, image, good looks, jewelry, art, distractions - all those things failed to fit that hole...

"In the end, it was only the God I found in AA - through hanging out in the fellowship, working our program of recovery, and being of service - that this hole was filled and I felt complete."

5 comments:

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Gin said...

Sounds about right!

Syd said...

I've tried to fill the hole inside me with lots of stuff as well. It never worked. Thanks Ed.

Carol said...

Sounds good. My 'heard at a meeting' was last week.

Someone recounted their sponsor's advice that since it took 36 years of walking into the forest that one could not walk out in 6 weeks.

But it only takes 12 steps.