Last night, I attended a meeting where the speaker ended with the words, "thank God I found SA!"  This is my sentiment exactly.

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In meetings, it's so easy to focus on what didn't go well over the last few days. But meetings really are amazing, and can be a place of real joy.

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 I've found the joy of sobriety difficult to communicate.  Maybe I should work on that, since "If newcomers could see no joy or fun in our existence, they wouldn't want it" (AA 132).  I'll relate one...

I'm beginning to understand this spiritual joy thing on a whole new level.  In the past, I was suspicious of “overly” joyful people – be they “Jesus freaks”, the “naively” happy, or the like.  Similarly, when I...