4. Working with professionals

I HOPE I'll never forget the evening I came home after about the third or fourth AA meeting I had attended. I was carrying in my mind's eye and in my heart a picture of these new people I had met. They had said, "We are not saints. . ." yet their words and, more important, their activities seemed to belie that statement. The warmth and love, the outstretched hand of our Fellowship was a moving experience for me. I was on Cloud Nine and searching for a way to describe these remarkable people to my good mate who was awaiting me with tongue in cheek and cynical eye.