Just before I first got clean and sober after twenty four years of drug and alcohol use/abuse, I cried out to God for help... the God I was brought up to believe in, though I did not, having had rejected Roman Catholicism as a teenager. I was not asking for help to quit using, but simply for an end to the emotional pain I kept finding myself in... yet, within days, I was clean and sober, and had a desire to stop using and find a new way to live. I had sporadically attended AA meetings for years, mostly to listen to people articulate the struggles and challenges and pain they were dealing with in their lives. I continued attending AA and doing simple service work at the group level, though my home groups were mainly in NA, where I also did service work and took cakes every year to mark my clean time. I did not take a cake in AA until I was seven years sober. The last cake I took in AA was four years ago, for my five years of sobriety
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