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Recovery Events Calendar

2009-01-09: Monterey Bay Area NA Convention 3

2009-01-09: TAC (formerly Tri Area) NA Convention 9

2009-01-09: Nassau Area NA Convention 6

2009-01-09: Virginians NA Convention 27

2009-01-09: Pilipinas Regional NA Convention 14

2009-01-15: Palm Coast Area 20th Annual Spiritual Retreat

2009-01-16: Free At Last 12 NA Convention

2009-01-16: Louisville Area NA Convention

2009-01-16: Norman Winter NA Convention

2009-01-22: Bombay Area NA Convention 14

2009-01-30: Greater Newark Area NA Convention 5

2009-02-06: Narcotics Anonymous Cabin Fever Prevention Convention

2009-02-06: Upper South Carolina Area NA Convention 29

2009-02-06: NA Mere vil blive vist

2009-02-12: Georgia Regional NA Convention 28

2009-02-13: Toledo Area NA Convention 12

2009-02-13: Mid-Atlantic Regional NA Learning Conference 25

2009-02-13: Narcotics Anonymous Recovery At Work 8

2009-02-13: Tejas Bluebonnet Regional NA Convention

A Meditation on Alcoholism

Tags: Leo Booth, Compulsive People

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A Meditation on Alcoholism

Alcoholism is not just about drinking too much and getting drunk. It is about loneliness, unmanageability and the accumulation of losses. Most alcoholics, if they don’t discover recovery, finish up alone. Yet this pain can be the gift that creates a change in lifestyle. For in the pain may lie that moment of truth when we know we must change or die, that moment which becomes our intervention.

My intervention came as a result of a drunken car crash. Even before the courts suspended my driving license, before my Bishop threatened to remove me from the priesthood, my moment had come: sitting on a curb, drunk, ashamed and bleeding, I knew I could not go on as I was. Others have interventions in the form of their children’s plea to stop, or the angry words of a spouse. Some receive their moment through formal interventions done by family and friends. No matter what form it takes, an intervention is born of pain which propels us to take a long look at ourselves. In the end, it is the pain which gives us the courage to change.

This meditation is about facing the consequences of our addictive choices. Spirituality comes in accepting those consequences and learning to find God in the small things of life we take for granted.

Today’s Meditation from:

Meditations for Compulsive People by Father Leo Booth.