September 30, 2025 - Service

 I just read a quote from the Grapevine about doing a tenth step journal of my day and I thought that is kinda what I use this blog for lately. Unfortunately, the tenth step is something I do every day and this blog is not updated every day. Maybe that is one of the things I should be working on.

Today was pretty straighforward. I woke up, did the things that I do every morning. That includes two daily readings, one from AA and one from Al-Anon, then I pick my word of the day. Today, it was forgiveness. Then, I share that word with about 50 people on social media. Then, I write a short blog entry at one of my blogs called quite appropriately The God Box. Once I had completed the morning ritual today, I made a cherry cheesecake for a birthday meeting I'm going to this evening and readied myself for a meeting with someone I sponsor.

The sponsorship meeting went well. It was on part of Step Four, the categories of Fear and Sex Conduct. we listened to one of the Dumb Guy CDs; he explains it well.

Then, I baked some cookies for the birthday meeting, cranberry with white chocolate chip. The cranberries I used were whole fresh cranberries. Just as I was finishing up with those, I met with someone to whom I am a service sponsor. We had a look at Tradition One. we use the Traditions Checklist. Lots of thought provoking questions there.

I was asked if I could be the chair for the birthday meeting tonight. Without hesitation, I agreed. I have been sober myself since November of 1997 and I have been doing service of some kind or another since November of 1997. I think the two are related.