Relief Is Not Release

After twenty-plus years of unsuccessfully “quitting drinking forever,” I was finally taken to my first AA meeting. I was coming off a three-day binge, still pretty much in an incoherent daze. Although, I recall very little about that meeting, I do remember becoming very emotional during The Lord’s Prayer, and left with a very strong conviction that AA was really going to work for me. From then on, I became a full-speed-ahead meeting attendee, generally going to more than just one meeting a day for months on end.