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Wed Night AA: Speaker Meeting

Good evening gents, 

Just your weekly reminder for this week's Wednesday night AA meeting. This is the last Wednesday of the month which means we will be having a Speaker Meeting. 

Curious side note about the month of May this year, it has both 5 Mondays & 5 Sundays. According to the not-at-all dubious website where I read this, this only happens once every 800 years!!

That kinda got me thinking about the opportunities we're given in this life. God knows I've squandered my share and sometimes it weighs on me. Great nuggets of wisdom on this topic are easy to find; When God closes a door he opens a window, There is no Yesterday or Tomorrow - There is only Today, Let Go and Let God or Be Dragged.... etc,etc,etc... Those are all true and all good but sometimes the past (and it's wreckage) can seem to follow you around like a dark cloud and it feels like we'll never get out from under it. 

When I find myself in that situation, I find it helps to remind myself of the decisions I took as a result of the steps of Alcoholics Anonymous:
"This is the How and the Why of it. First of all, we had to quit playing God. It didn't work. Next, we decided that hereafter in this drama of life, God was going to be out Director. He is the Principal; we are his agents. He is the Father, and we are his children. Most good ideas are simple, and this concept was the keystone of the new and triumphant arch through which we passed to freedom." -p62 BB

Best regards,
David t
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