Thank you God for SA with a very tough bottom line; recovery came to me because of this program. Thank you for teaching me that every person has dignity. No matter what their station in life, economic status, addictions, and illness, no matter what they’ve done—every person has dignity.

On one of those cold lonely days in prison, I wrote to SA Simi Valley, CA and received a White Book from Nashville. Thank you SAICO for being there, and for mailing that book to me.

I wrote Rochester, NY. Thank you to the member who responded and spent fifteen months writing letters and guiding me in working the Steps.

A special thank you to SA Rochester for being there on my release and accepting this much-fractured person. Thank you fellowship members for giving me a job when most of the world rejected me. Thank you to my sponsor, especially for making me do the Steps again after a small struggle on my part. [Note to my new sponsor: Yes, I will do the Steps again with you.]

Thank you CFC for taking me under your wing allowing me to be a part of SA Correctional Facilities Committee. I spoke at several prisons to inmates, even to administrators. We carried the message over the walls. I became chair of that committee three years later. Thanks to all the recovering SAs who work on that committee.

Thanks to my Florida friends for the nursing and housing you gave me during the Daytona convention.

Thank you God for a loving fellowship/family that has ministered to all my needs, and helped me return to sanity.

How is it possible to thank all the many people, so beautiful, who have been very instrumental in my recovery? For today, I will carry the message, serve the fellowship, and pray that I am walking the talk.

I say with the warmest love this human can muster up: Thank you, and may God continue to bless us all.