Daily Reprieve

I shared at the meeting tonight.  It is disconcerting that I never know what is going to come out of my mouth, or if it is going to make sense to those who hear it.  But I discovered that the Higher Power in charge of the sharing seems to chose certain individuals to have the gold nugget, others to have reinforcing words, and others to ramble in some form of meandering panic.  The importance of the last group is that it allows others in the meeting realize that if that person can share and it be alright, why can’t I?  If everyone who opened their mouth was a practiced orator, it would be too intimidating of an atmosphere for most addicts / alchies to feel free to share.  Anyway, I am not going to risk the loss of sleep.  I am going to accept the limits of my few hours of wakefulness, and actually surrender.  Let’s see how that works.

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