I don't know if this frail human body and spirit can handle the awesome
power of this program.  Talk about a spiritual awakening.  I've been kind
of sitting on the 6th and 7th steps, as well as the 1st part of the 5th,
primarily because they are so intangible.  Our last Saturday's meeting was
on the 6th and I came away feeling I had almost worked through that one,
but maybe not just quite.
From the opening chord on the organ for the prelude the Ash Wednesday
service yesterday was so intense for me I almost could not perform my part
as a member of the choir in the service.  Everything just seemed to come
togther.  It is impossible to put in words what the music was and did ...
and, even stranger yet, I found at the end that it was completely
improvised by the organist and would be impossible ever to hear again!
Almost immediately after the prelude was a set of confessional prayers --
by the time we were half way through them I realized I was doing those 5th,
6th, and 7th steps then and there and I still choke up as I write this with
how I felt.  And the feeling continued throughout the service; even the
short sermon, about which I can remember very little, seemed aimed directly
at me and where I was in the AA program. As I recall,
I could find all of the 12 steps, each in its won way, somewhere in that single
service -- quite unintentionally, but also so natural and powerfully.

Again, Wow!

Thanks to all of you for being here, may you all find something
similar.

Ted L.