Sacrifice = Unity = Survival

That was yesterday, June 30th’s Daily Reflection’s Title. I was fortunate enough to see it in action!

I regularly attend an AA Zoom meeting group called “Hair of the Dog Morning Meditation” at 8 AM Central time and the topic is that day’s Daily Reflection. Yesterday, we were lacking a chairperson for our meeting. One of our homegroup members had signed on early from her hotel room in a foreign country after a travel nightmare the day before. She was exhausted and beat down and had just finished sharing with a few of us her travel woes when it was announced that we were lacking a chair for the morning meeting. I was traveling in a vehicle at the time and my big, fat mouth volunteered her for the position without thinking of where her head was at the time, because she is a fabulous chairperson and volunteers for service often when she is home in the states. Without hesitation, she stepped up and said she would take the chair if nobody else could!

I am not kidding you, I saw an instant transformation in that woman. Her shoulders squared back. Her eyes opened wider. Her jaw even set firm but with purpose at the same time. It was as if the topic of the Daily Reflection was coming alive before my very eyes!

Sacrifice = Unity = Survival… this woman went from being the VICTIM of a travel nightmare where she was taken advantage of by a budget airline and delayed to a point of almost missing her and her entire team’s flight and had to pay extra cash to fly, leaving one of her teammates behind. She SACRIFICED how she was feeling physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually for the UNITY of the program to be of service as the chairperson of our meeting and instantly went into SURVIVAL mode! She became a SURVIVOR during that meeting, and then something even more amazing happened! SHE BEGAN TO THRIVE!! My dear friend was like a small snowball traveling down a mountain, getting larger and stronger as it went along. With each person that she brought in to share and every person she said thank you to, she became more and more confident. I was in awe of her perserverance! I kept rereading the Daily Reflection and watching her work the room as chairperson and just sat back and shed a few tears of joy. I looked up and thanked my Higher Power. I thanked her Higher Power! It was such a beautiful thing to be a part of. Those in my group who read this will understand.

By the end of the meeting, we all knew that our sober sister was going to be just fine. The team member that was left behind in the states had gotten to her site and the event was going to go off without a hitch. We all wished her well and with her SURVIVOR mindset, she was ready to rock the world! By using SACRIFICE = UNITY = SURVIVAL, my sober sister pulled herself from the depths of despair, wanting to drink in an airport bar, and became SURVIVOR TURNED THRIVER, and I got to be a fly on the wall while she used her program of AA to do it!

What A Life!

~me