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Indirect amends was getting involved in service. There were too many people long gone, or were in my life for a short time and their names were forgotten, so what I could do or say to them, I got involved with service, at the local jail, detox, recovery houses, community service, sharing my story at meetings, and just going to a meeting and sharing my experience, strength, and hope. I first got started at my home group in the kitchen and setting up the meetings and taking them down, secretary, literature, hospitals and institutions, General Service Rep and Inter-Group Rep. I also got involved with the Help Line and sponsored or was a temporary sponsor until they found someone who could give them the time they needed. I truly don't think I would be clean and sober in today if it wasn't for service.
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When I look at how often I come here and share, I am still going to lots of meetings. I laughed, I talked to my Al-Anon sponsor the other day. I said, "I probably talk and think recovery more than anyone going to a meeting a day." I was told if you don't have a relationship, best I get involved in service. Service gave purpose to my life, whether people talked about me, shunned me, or talked behind my back. I wasn't there for them. It was what I needed to do for my recovery. I thought it was rather ironic, I didn't want a man in my life and wasn't looking for one and they found me. I had a lot of male friends, because I went to meetings all over the city. I wasn't looking for romance, after all I had been married twice and had been in several abusive relationships, why would I want to do that again. I would get friends with someone and behaviours reminded me of old ones that I had lived through before, and I would end it. Don't feed the gossip, it will die down without fuel. Talk to the source, don't listen to hear say. Even in today, I don't go down to the common room or sit out on the benches out front of my building, it is all gossip. I don't have time for that.
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So many times, when in a hurry, my prayers are said in rote, and sometimes they are okay, depending on the circumstances, as long as they are said with faith and an honest desire to not go back to old ways of being. Sometimes in a rush we say a prayer, but it is much better to take time, pray and remember that God answers knee mail.
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