Today was a very busy morning in which I was buried in my work. Bt at noon I got to go to the noon meeting. It was a much needed interlude.

We read from the personal story "My Bottle, My Resentments, and Me. We read several paragraphs about a low bottom alcoholic. I observed the stark contrast with the previous story, "Window of Opportunity". I thought about the diverse and extremely variant backgrounds of people who have alcoholism. I thought about how they only have two common threads, the presence of the disease, and the spiritual malady.

I thought about how people come to recovery at various stages in the progression. I thought about how the disease is not limited to those with previous disorder but also affects those with succesful lives. Likewise, recovery is not limited to those who have not progressed beyond all hope, but even the worst low bottom cases can find recovery.

I thought about the alcoholism spectrum. About how people have varied symptoms to different extremes. I think we have a tendency to set the bar for alcoholism too high. I think the measure simply has to be whether or not it affects our lives and whether or not we can leave it alone.

Tonight my son and I had a baseball game and I forgot to open the meeting house and I forgot to call someone and make sure they knew I would not be there to open.

We had a great game and my Dad took us out to eat afterward.

Thanks be to God for a Spiritual Awakening.