Saturday Morning Sober

Welcome to Saturday Morning Sober

Saturdays, 8 a.m. at the Friendship Club, 1915 Rosina St. in Santa Fe. We are an open, non-smoking, Alcoholics Anonymous home group.

If you drink, what is your relationship with alcohol?

For most normal folks, drinking means conviviality, companionship, and colorful imagination. It means release from care, boredom and worry. It is joyous intimacy with friends and a feeling that life is good.

But not so with us in those last days of heavy drinking. The old pleasures were gone. They were but memories. Never could we recapture the great moments of the past. There was an insistent yearning to enjoy life as we once did and a heartbreaking obsession that some new miracle of control would enable us to do it. There was always one more attempt—and one more failure. The less people tolerated us, the more we withdrew from society, and from life itself. As we became subjects of King Alcohol, shivering denizens of his mad realm, the chilling vapor that is loneliness settled down. It thickened, ever becoming blacker.

If the last passage describes how you are, or used to be, then you are related to us in that we are powerless over alcohol. Drinking had made our lives become unmanageable, replete with pain, despair and hopelessness. We came to believe, however, that a power greater ourselves could restore us to sanity. Faith in this higher power, and turning our lives and will over to its care, has done for us what we could not do for ourselves—gotten us sober. These are the first three steps of our recovery program.

We welcome you to join us at the Friendship Club on Saturday mornings as we share our strength, hope and recovery with the common goal of making it through the end of the day without taking a drink. Meetings consist of a speaker, followed by open sharing. Beginners struggling to get sober, and visitors from outside of Santa Fe, are especially welcome.