Last night I had a dream, that is was Christmas morning and I was sitting admiring and at the same time fascinated by the beauty of the Christmas tree. It was early in the morning and no one was about. The house was quiet and there was a calm and comforting kind of peace, almost the kind we experience when we have a moment of silence before our meetings. When I happened to glance beneath the tree, and it was there that I saw some imaginary packages.

This doesn’t make sense because imaginary things don’t exist, but there they were, all sorts of packages. So I reached to look over; and I was bewildered at first at the contents, but soon I understood.

     The first package was labeled “Kit of Tools composed of 12 Steps” with the instructions to use them unselfishly, diligently and as faithfully as I was capable of doing. Then there was a box, not a large one, its contents “Sobriety”, what a wonderful gift, just what I needed, the instructions, share it with others or it will disappear. Quickly I picked up another package that was beautifully wrapped with a glistening kind of ribbon. Inside I found “Self-respect”, a card read self-confidence is necessary to insure the dignity that is your birthright. Like an eager child I opened the next gift and this time the small but mighty cargo inside was “Faith, and the only explanation with this package was Faith is the bright candle of hope that illuminates our way from gloom to God. A small, I should say tiny, package almost got lost among the others. After opening and looking at it, I was sure this was for the wrong person, for inside this tiny box I found “Humility”. This is something I don’t know a thing about. But now I felt that I had hit the jackpot. I opened two more packages in a hurry, one had “Peace of Mind”, the other “A Felling of Security”, boy, what a combination. I looked at the last box and it was labeled “Friendship”, it was then that I remembered your kind words, your phone calls, your trust in me, your smile and glad handshake. Then I looked again, and do you know what? These packages were not addressed to me.

THEY WERE ADDRESSED TO ALL PEOPLE IN RECOVERY EVERYWHERE,

MADE POSSIBLE BY THERE 12 STEP PROGRAM

“THROUGH THE COURTESY OF THE GOD OF THERE UNDERSTNDING.”