The Missing Link p281-288

Hello guys,

This week we begin on part 2 of the personal stories in the back of the Big Book - They Stopped in Time. These are the stories of men & women who "have never reached the advanced stages of alcoholism, though given time all might have." 

There is peculiar old idea I used to have relating to this. Back in 2006-ish, I knew absolutely zero about alcoholism or AA but I knew I didn't drink like everyone else and I was sick & tired of being sick & tired. All of my efforts to curb my drinking habit on my own had failed. So after a very polite suggestion from my ex-wife, I called in to a Rehab center at a local hospital and they told me to come in the next day first thing in the morning.

Suddenly I felt a rather irrational fear, I wasn't afraid that they'd put me in rehab, actually I was afraid that they would somehow think I wasn't bad enough to give me treatment. After all, no way was I as bad as those alcoholic caricatures I'd conjured up in my mind, but if they turned me away then what was I going to do? So I did what seemed like the most logical thing to do at the time, I bought a bottle of bourbon and a 12-pack of beer and guzzled it all down. At the very least I'd smell like an alcoholic the next day!! Needless to say... the people at the rehab didn't take long to have me sign on the dotted line and away I went onto my journey into recovery.

It's been a circuitous journey at times but since then I've learned that my drinking had in fact brought me to the jumping off point. That point where I couldn't live with alcohol and I couldn't imagine life without alcohol and I'd felt loneliness like few men have known. I hit my bottom, and that's the only bottom I have to worry about today. 

This Wednesday we read The Missing Link p281-288. 

Best Regards,

David t.

2015 Meeting Dates

10/29/14 Speaker Meeting <David t>

11/26/14 Speaker Meeting <Roy M>

-->Reading: Being Sober and Becoming Happy

01/28/15 Speaker Meeting <Steve W.>

02/25/15 Speaker Meeting <Gerard P>

03/25/15 Speaker Meeting <Mark D.>

--> Reading: A New Pair of Glasses by Chuck C. 

04/29/15 Speaker Meeting <Russ W.>

05/27/15 Speaker Meeting <Omar P.>
06/24/15 Speaker Meeting <Ricardo A.>

--> Reading: Personal Stories back of Big Book of AA <--

07/29/15 Speaker Meeting <Adam S.>
08/26/15 Speaker Meeting <Kevin M.>

09/02/15 Our Southern Friend p208-218

09/09/15 The Viscous Cycle p219-231

09/16/15 Jim's Story p232-245

09/23/15 The Man Who Mastered Fear p246-257

09/30/15 Speaker Meeting <Fred D>

10/07/15 He Sold Himself Short p258-267

10/14/15 The Keys of the Kingdom p268-280

10/21/15 The Missing Link p281-288

10/28/15 Speaker Meeting

11/04/15 Fear of Fear p289-294

11/11/15 The Housewife Who Drank at Home p295-300

11/18/15 Physician, Heal Thyself! p301-308

11/25/15 Speaker Meeting

12/02/15 My Chance to Live p309-318

12/09/15 Student of Life p319-327

12/16/15 Crossing the River of Denial p328-337

12/23/15 Because I'm an Alcoholic p338-348

12/30/15 Speaker Meeting