Happy Because I'm Sober

SINCE my earliest days in this Fellowship, I have heard about something called happy sobriety. Apparently, this is a special product of our way of life; if you work things out with the tools our Fellowship provides, the product is yours. But some feel it should be theirs as a matter of right, or simply for the asking. These poor souls overlook the vital word in the above statement: work. The AAs who are supremely happy, I find, are those who really work the program. Indeed, they live it--day by day, even minute by minute.