I went to a meeting this morning and left feeling very good. The person who gave the lead had been sober for some 36 years. He'd been active in recovery all that time. His presence at the podium cast an aura of spirituality over the room. Many of the men present were born long after he had first gotten sober. Some were in their late teens and early 20s.

But the concepts he shared had nothing to do with their youth or his length of sobriety. The concepts he shared at the podium were those forged by the founders of the program back in the 1930s. He talked about the idea that we are people who can't drink like others. When we take that first drink bad things start to happen. In the 20 minutes allotted him, he led the audience through his drinking history up to the way his life is at present.

What he said was important because it showed us the program works. Sometimes the disease of alcoholism tells us nothing works. But when we can see real living human examples around us who have many years of sobriety then we know it works.

I thank the speaker for taking the time to let us know how it works.