If I could have changed anything over the last year........

Some flowers from my friends.

I would have changed NOTHING!!  I am so thankful to have my sobriety.  After my meeting last night a bunch of people came back to my house for some food and it was wonderful.  I know it's really just another day, but it was special.  I have to remember and always reflect on how far I have come and what I was like, what could happen if I just take one drink!!

Last night I spoke and if I was to do it all over again I think I would have shared this prayer, it is beautiful and it really says it all!!

Sobriety Prayer

From The 12 Step Prayer Book

Sobriety Prayer

If I speak in the tongues of men and even of angels, but have not sobriety, I am a noisy gong or a clanging symbol.  And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to move mountains but have not sobriety, I am nothing.  IF I give away all that I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned, bit have not sobriety, I gain nothing.

When I am sober, I am patient and kind.  When I am sober, I am not jealous nor boastful, not arrogant or rude.  When I am sober, I do not insist on my own way.  When I am sober, I am not irritable or resentful.  I do not rejoice at wrong as I used to do but rejoice in what is right.

When I am sober I can bear all things, believe in all things, hope all things, and endure all things.

Sobriety never ends and never fails.

When I was using, I spoke like an arrogant child, thought like a stubborn child and reasoned like a rebellious child.  When I chose sobriety for my life, I gave up my childish ways.

So faith, hope, love and sobriety abide, but for me, the most important has to be sobriety, for without it, I cannot have the other three, nor can I ever have the serenity I yearn to possess.