The relationships we create during recovery are the container in which we do our healing work. ~ Covington, Stephanie S. A Woman’s Way through the Twelve Steps (p. 203). Hazelden Publishing. Kindle Edition.
Have you closer friends
than the ones you’ve met
in the rooms of Recovery?
I have other friends
but none so vibrant.
It’s like the Big Book description:
Near you, alcoholics are dying helplessly
like people in a sinking ship… 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.*
Truly these rooms are like none other
and that fellowship shares the truth.
The rooms, the physical ones
as well as the Fellowship we carry in our hearts
is a warm and loving container
for all of us.
than the ones you’ve met
in the rooms of Recovery?
I have other friends
but none so vibrant.
It’s like the Big Book description:
Near you, alcoholics are dying helplessly
like people in a sinking ship… 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.*
Truly these rooms are like none other
and that fellowship shares the truth.
The rooms, the physical ones
as well as the Fellowship we carry in our hearts
is a warm and loving container
for all of us.
* A.A. World Services Inc. Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition . A.A. World Services, Inc.. Kindle Edition.
