Meetings Are the Medicine

Last night I experienced a lesson in the Steps of our program. My home group was scheduled to have some of our members share an open informational meeting at the local veterans hospital. There were eight people who had expressed their interest in attending, but when the meeting began at 7:30 PM, there were only two of us present. I was very discouraged. It caused me much distress that my dear friends who so openly professed their gratitude for AA were unwilling to share an hour of their sobriety with a few suffering alcoholics.