The website link to the group meeting room is http://www.12stepforums.net/chatroom2.html . There are other ways to join the room also. Using mIRC or other chat client, the server we are on is irc.chat4all.org, port 6667 which users will need to add to their IRC server list, and our room name (#alanonchat) to their IRC channels.

Hope you will join us.

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Today's Topic:"It Was Just There"

i.e. What is a Spiritual Awakening to You?

I always asked myself what was meant by "a spiritual awakening." I was so curious but nobody in Al-Anon could tell me about it. And then one day it happened in my life; my spiritual awakening was there! I don't know where it came from and I don't know how it came. It was just there!

I felt that everything in my life was right; my past was right and my present was right. Most important for me was theat my feelings were right-that anything I felt or will ever feel is right, only because they are my feelings.

The other thing was that there is nobody who can tell me what to do or not to do. I have to decide on my own and rely on myself. I can ask peopel for suggestions and look for support, but at the very last, I am the person who decides what's going on in my life and who must take responsiblitity for it.

From that day on I woke up every morning thinking, "Well, I am responsible" - and I felt so worried about that. I felt overwhelmed by having to choose among a million possibililties. Any way I choose, my HP is choosing for and with me. I began asking myself, "What do I want?" and "What is good for me?" In contanct with my HP my ability to make choices works.

"What unexpected blessings have I received in Al-Anon?"