Daily Reprieve - March

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March 20

TOUCHED BY LOVE
"For me, AA is a synthesis of all the philosophy I've ever read,
all of the positive, good philosophy, all of it based on love." Alcoholics Anonymous, page 542 (Third Edition)

"Love each other." John 13: 34

For what it's worth: Perhaps the absence of love was the deepest hole in my soul. Worse yet, I never believed it would be filled. Drink blotted out that despair only momentarily, but it sealed the void, and I nearly died, not just alone, but without love. I did not realize it for years, but alcohol had to go for me to find love and be able to love. Nothing could have done that for me other than Alcoholics Anonymous. It is a Program of love I believe inspired by Love. Before recovery, I was incapable of giving and receiving love. Now, not only am I able to love, I am loved. How many ways and how often I have experienced love I cannot count. How many times have I gone to an AA meeting in need and been touched deeply with love? How many times have I cried out to my Heavenly Father and been held in His loving arms? And, although I lost a family to alcoholism, how about the family I have been given in recovery? How about all the close friends we develop in recovery through sponsorship and sharing with one another in the language of the heart? There is no hole in my soul now. It overflows with love.

God bless you!
Joe W.