TALK ABOUT A SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE
By A Yahoo! Contributor, 6/12/06
went to my first founders day this year (2006) and when i got off the shuttle at dr.bob's house and looked up and saw the banner, "welcome home", i was overwhelmed with emotion. "welcome home", i felt like i was home, like i had just crossed over to a new life again. i have almost 17 years of the program but i felt like it was my first day of sobriety.
it was the most moving experience i have ever felt, surrounded by so many miracles and so many smiling faces, people who were genuinely thankful to be alive and free. I feel like a new woman today, now that i've "been there." i bought the book that dr. Bob's kids wrote and read the whole thing on the plane on the way to my home. it gave the word grateful a new meaning for me. when i entered the sick room, i knelt down and said the prayer that was on the bed and felt as though they were right there helping me too. when i sat at their kitchen table i felt the love and also the pain they must have experienced. on sunday when we went to the gravesite, wow, they haven't invented the words to describe the feelings that flooded my body and my mind. When they played taps "amazing grace" and the member who spoke to us over the intercom, (although we could not see him) he stated that they play one for dr. Bob, one for anne and then one for "us", i felt like a million miracles. my gratitufe expands to each and every person that made that weekend happen for me and my husband (who is also an alcoholic 6 years sobriety). we will definitely make that our yearly prilgrimage so that we may be of service once again with serenity, peace and love. When we were in the jar hall and the thunder roared with gratitude and love, it was like a rock concert without the band. The countdown was amazing, and for the moment i wished the whole world could have been sober. thank god, thank god, thank god.