This a beautiful remembrance, Brad, thanks for sharing your thoughts and feelings. We’re left with a silence where his voice used to be. I remember him from 2019 when I first joined this site. He walked the path we all should follow. God,
God,
Thank You for Matt’s example.
Help us stay sober,
carry their light,
and live the Principles
one day at a time.
Amen.

An excellent post! One thing that helped me is remembering that we only do this one day at a time. This disease does not take a holiday, so I can’t afford to take a holiday from sobriety. Someone in one of my meetings uses “Play the tape forward.” Long before you pick up that first drink, remind yourself of all the things that happened after you drank/got drunk. Those things are typically a deterrent since I don’t want to go through that pain again.

Thank You. I Needed This.

I can so relate to this post. At the end of my drinking, I was totally isolating. Every day, I would come home from work and start drinking with the sole goal of getting to oblivion. I am not a social butterfly today and my sponsor calls me a loner. 🙂 But, I do love the people in the meetings here and in my local area. he