yes..i have friends..REAL friends..i can connect to these friends thru real feelings. i have a clear head now, i have money that i never had before. not more money, but it goes farther because i can think before i just go blow it all. not jus on booze but anything.i have a closer relationship with my daughter. ive went back to school at the age of ...well older..im getting to know me for a change

It starts when you start to develop a relationship with your higher power, or at least it started that way for me.
I kept hearing "no coincidences" in the rooms; then I realized that if my life hadn't gone exactly the way it had the year b4 I sobered up (and probably my whole life, but I went back a year), I wouldn't have gotten sober when I did. Maybe I would have sobered up later, who knows and who cares?
A year b4 I got sober I was fired from my job in a Hotel Restaurant for drinking on the job; that started the spiral into recovery.
I was about 10 months sober when my father co-signed a loan for me to buy a new car, he told me to consider it a gift of sobriety. What I found the gift to be was my ability and my determination to make every payment on time and not let him down again.

It si a miracle that im still married and have my four children.Im 5 months sober and never in a million years did i ever think I would get this far.I have to agree with lacey2,I also have REAL friends and for that im sooo grateful.Being sober has changed my life and the people around me dramatically,I aint ever going back!!!

The Greatest Miracle of All is me. I have me. I never even knew a me existed. I always had a drunk, a person I never liked, and a person who cared about nothing. I got sober and discovered me. I found out that I am a loving, caring, gentle, kind man who is capable of being a friend. I was told that if I wanted a friend to be a friend. Like the lovely Lace, I have REAL friends too. Hundreds of them... too many to count. My sobriety is my miracle, not to drink today.

I am Happy2

Being alive today to experience life is a miracle in itself.

I have more than I ever could wished for. I have my daughter (who could not even look at me before) She now loves me and is proud to be with me!!!! I have a real husband (we have been married 23 years, but now it feels real) because I am back, I have a carer that i love, and a relationship with my higher power(that I never even knew existed before) I feel stron and confident and love being in control of my life, and I love remembering things the next day. It is all the greatest gift!!!I feel so vey blessed. I hope you get to feel these wondeful things to. good Luck

i have hope now and i really care about me. i now realize just how much i love my family and friends who are in my life. just staying sober one day at a time has been a miracle

for me, the miracle (one Of)being able to live. I don't have to worry about something happening, good or bad, that will send me over the edge. The program of AA taught me to be honest and what it really means, taught how to deal with life on life's terms. I've only been sober 19 months and life sucks sometimes and that's ok today. the love for my hp and myself is great. But i have found out that my miracles only come when i am truely concerned and helping others.

CLEAN AND SOBER----

JUST FOR TODAY

I have a miracle everyday, just waking up and being responsible and not taking the first drink.

One miracle for me is that today I can say no to alcohol and thats not bad for someone who couldnt even imagine going a day without it let alone 16 years now ODAAT.

Today I can say I love you and mean it also not bad for someone who never new what real love was.

Today I can hug and be hugged. I can let people into my circle. I can touch and be touched without the other person thinking they are hugging a telegraph pole.

Today all my family are still apart of my life and I have been given the time to see my children grow and have children of there own.

Today I have a loving God in my life that could and has never stoped loving someone like me.

The list goes on and on.

Happy2 .Do you know what vitamin you take that helps you get friends. B1..lol

God Bless
Lionel

By the grace of my higher power, and the program and fellowship of AA, I will be sober 19 years on December 31st. So you want miracles? Where or where to start.

I am sober. After drinking to oblivion until the age of 30, I was able to put down the drink one day at a time.

I am alive. I spent most of the last year of my drinking being depressed or suicidal.

I have spirituality. I grew up Irish Catholic. It was very difficult to believe that there was a loving higher power in existence.

I have been married to the same loving man for 27 years. When I was drinking I could have cared less about my husband.

Walking through challenges without drinking. My husband was diagnosed with a very rare form of pancreatic cancer in 2006, then I lost my father, my older brother, my twin brother, and my husband's sister. It never occurred to me to drink.

Today, I am self supporting through my own contributions, I own a beautiful home, I have four pets that I actually love and take care of, I own a car and I actually drive it, I am spending Thanksgiving with my family in New England, I have an Master's Degree, I live in Orlando, Florida, etc.

I had none of this before I got sober and never even imagined that any of this was possible. "If you settle for your wildest dreams, you will be selling yourself short." Once you get sober and connect with a higher power, he/she will have plans for you that are beyond anything that you could expect from life.

Good Luck.

My miracle IS the fact I was able to sober up for 14 years, on my own, after being an alcoholic for 18 years.

I drank for 25 years years, and all sorts of crap happened.

Since I have stopped drinking normalty has returned, every day is not a crisis, I remeber hat I have done, what I should be doing and where I shold be going.

The son who said he would not see me drunk, sees me all the time, my family has come back, I have more money and I am spending it on better things, I do not hake, vomit or seat, I do not reek of alcohol, I have made more true friends in 22 months of sobriety than I ever made n 25 years of drinking

Every day just gets a little better, believe me there are no comparisons, just stick with it and you will see

Well done and good luc

thanks for sharing ... i am encouraged by everyone's story