Who Kept Us Sober Today?

AA Meetings are all pretty much the same, in format! They started very promptly and ended on time.  In the beginning, the meeting starts with a couple of readings, like “How It Works” and/or “The AA Preable“.  There might be a speaker who has been invited in to tell their story.  Maybe there’s a reading from The Big Book from “24 Hours“.  Then, the meeting is opened to “sharing”.

Once the prescribed hour is up, and everyone that wanted to share has shared, the leader of the meeting generally says, “Well, we have a nice way of closing”.  Everyone stands in a circle and joins hands, and the speaker says, “Let’s have a moment of silence for those still sick and suffering, followed by the Serenity Prayer, followed by the Lord’s Prayer.  To break the silence and get everyone to start the prayer at the same time, with everyone calling out “God” the invocation in the first line of the prayer, the speaker might ask a question:

• Who brought us together this evening?
• Who kept us sober today?
• Who created fire ants and is the only one who knows why?
• Who delivers us like pizza?
• Who hangs the stars and keeps us out of bars?
• Who hangs the stars and keeps us out of cop cars?
• Who keeps us out of bars and cop cars?
• Who let the dogs out?
• Who loves us and keeps us sober?
• Who made the rivers and saved our livers?
• Who made the stars and keeps us out of bars?
• Who makes seekers out of tweakers?
• Who makes the moon shine?
• Who never misses a meeting?
• Who put the fuzz on the peaches and the girls on the beaches?
• Who put the fuzz on the peaches and the sand on the beaches?
• Who put the sand on the beaches and hair on the peaches?
• Who puts the breeze in the trees?
• Who saved us?
• Who sees our browser history?
• Who sees us in the shower and didn’t laugh?
• Who watches us pee in the shower?
• Who woke us up this morning?
• Who’s large & in charge?
• Who’s the dude that sees you in the nude?
• Who’s our sky daddy that keeps us from acting badly?
• Who’s the guy in the sky that stops us from getting high?
• Who’s your Daddy?