Love Thy Neighbor As Thyself

You are going to meet these new friends in your own community. Near you, alcoholics are dying helplessly like people in a sinking ship. If you live in a large place, there are hundreds. High and low, rich and poor, these are future fellows of Alcoholics Anonymous. Among them you will make lifelong friends. You will be bound to them with new and wonderful ties, for you will escape disaster together and you will commence shoulder to shoulder your common journey. Then you will know what it means to give of yourself that others may survive and rediscover life. You will learn the full meaning of 'Love thy neighbor as thyself'. Big Book, p152

No matter what these people look like, sound like, or act like, they are my fellows.  They have been on the same downward spiral I have into the abyss of alcoholism. 

"Whenever anyone, anywhere, reaches out for help, I want the hand of A.A. always to be there. And for that: I am Responsible."

I have met glorious people in the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous.  They are walking, living, breathing miracles of a most awesome and loving God.   These are the people I am growing up with.  We reciprocate experience, strength and hope in all things.  We share from a level of absolute honesty and we love each other wholly and completely regardless of any seeming differences.  We are a Fellowship and we are friends and we walk this roomy, all-inclusive Broad Highway together.

Thank You Higher Power.  Thank You for the beautiful strangers from the past who are now my present friends, brothers and sisters.  Thank You.