GET INTO THE MIDDLE OF THE BED

GET INTO THE MIDDLE OF THE BED

My parents moved to Bathgate a year and a half after I took the first drink in 1987. This was a new start and I promised to go back to AA.

When I did; I did what was suggested and rolled the sleeves up. I attended lots of meetings and met a lot of the people who were members previously. It was great to get back and start living without the obsession for drink and the insanity of doing so.

Before long I was getting a lift every night to meetings. A gentleman named George started to take me about, I did not know this at the time but he was in the process of becoming a priest. He was a great guy who I bonded with from the offset. One evening at a local meeting in Whitburn, I asked him of this god that was spoke of at times in the meeting rooms and that is also mentioned as a higher power on cards and posters that were on the walls. He said nicely that I should not concern myself with these things just yet but to concentrate on listening to what people were sharing from the main speaker table and from comments around the room. I wanted to know and pushed him to tell me. He did, but what he said was the wisest thing anyone has ever said to me. He said, See if you want to know who God is; go home put your hands together and ask!

Ask who I said! Just ask! He said.

After trying a number of ways to find out I gave up and decided to be quite on the subject. He would give nothing away the biggest hint at this god I got; was it could be a light bulb if I choose it to be. I had heard this a few times previous, I was familiar with the saying. But hadn't a clue what it meant. I knew it must be simple as the slogans around the room seem to be easy to understand. Like keep it simple’, live and let live’, think, think, think,’ one day at a time’ and don't lift the first drink’. These were just some of the things I seen and heard every night at the meetings.