This is the slogan that has protected my mind, body, spirit and emotions and was passed on to me right after my very first AGF meeting. It has caused me to understand Step One and in response have a much different life than when I started recovery around 2/8/79 and get totally involved on many levels including services.  

When I started recovery I learned that I didn't know and didn't know that I didn't what alcoholism was not even how to say it or spell it and such.  The word we used in my families was "drunk" and then that was disrespectful and dangerous as a young person to say...punishment was severe from the alcoholic and the parent enablers which aided the form of dangerous personality I carried up to, thru and including program until I could learn and follow the suggestions I work now including going to college, finding and using counselors and program sponsors and practice, practice, practice. 

Inventory and doing enabling practice keeps me in front of me with a desire to keep working it, the program. The resulting freedom from living with our deadly disease is more than worth it.

I stay with and rely on my real Higher Power 24/7.  I make myself available to His needs continually.  

To say I am deeply grateful to MIP and this family would be a reminder of how I got here and need to stay. 

With all my love.  (((((Hugs))))) 

... Thanks Jerry, ehoa... [friend]...

     I am still getting good memory. People at meetings said that the disease was cunning and baffling.

     I look back now and ask myself what I know now. More or less the same thing!