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  • Subject: "The Keys of the Kingdom" Page 268 When I look around the tables at the old timers and see the success they have experienced staying sober, some for many decades, and ask myself why they have had success …

  • Lunch with sponsor. I like to meet with my sponsor over lunch at the local restaurant. It is a casual atmosphere with a reasonable amount of privacy. Eating, talking and drinking coffee is a comfortable way to have a…

  • The full spectrum of life. It’s good to stop and smell the roses, look around and appreciate all that sobriety has brought about. Life and sobriety is all encompassing. Family, fellowship and friendship is withou…

  • Eager to attend home group. This week I experienced a feeling of eager anticipation for the regular weekly home group meeting. It is refreshing emotionally going to the meeting with an energized state of mind. No que…

  • My sponsor. I pick out a fella in my home group to be my sponsor. He is a grandfatherly type with an easy does it kind of program. He is old and has been sober a long time. His shares around the table always encourag…

  • Tenth Step Time is running out to get it right with my 17 year old son. There are times when I handle the natural bonds of love and respect and the fatherly obligations of responsibility and authority very poorly. Th…

  • Reflections on the story from the Big Book "He Sold Himself Short", page 258 in Edition 4. The line that catches my attention is on page 264, "I decided I must place this program above everything else, even my family…

  • Western Michigan Area Assembly - Grand Rapids This weekend was the WMAA meeting in GR. Because it was my first visit to the group in a number of years it was enjoyable to see many old friends, people I came to know f…

  • Some Reflections on the Doctor's Opinion from the book Alcoholics Anonymous. The doctor identifies one symptom that sets the chronic alcoholic apart from the temperate drinker. That is, after taking a few drinks, we …

  • First Prayer Experience The rented room was furnished with a bed, dresser and desk. It was on the second floor of a house shared with two other bachelor drinking buddies. The room was reasonably large with a west fac…

  • Reflections on the Big Book story "The Man Who Mastered Fear" This is such an inspiring story, riches to rags to riches, what a country - what a program. The author touched me many times. I shared his despair when …

  • Keeping an Open Mind After the rush of new sobriety wears off and a set of principals, practices and beliefs have been established that produce sobriety; open mindedness, eagerness to change, acceptance of new ideas …

  • Sitting quietly this morning in meditation and prayer the Eleventh Step medition came to mind from the Twelve & Twelve, "Lord, make me a channel of thy peace - that were there is hatred, I may bring love - that w…

  • Looking for a way to do Twelfth Step work? GSO is looking for help corresponding with inmate AA members. They call it the Corrections Correspondence Service. Here is the contact information Correctional Facilities De…

  • It has been helpful to do a weekly moral inventory. The review and re-emphisis of what is important in life is time well spent. Most of life is dedicated to worldly focus but Sunday morning has been a good time to con…

  • Our AA Area Assembly meets January 16 in Grand Rapids. The urge to attend has been rather strong for the last three months. It would strengthen our home group to have someone attending service meetings. Service meetin…

  • Sometimes extra will power is required on meeting night to get out the door. This evening was one of those days. The full life of sobritey can cause the fuel tank of willingness and energy to run on fumes. The basic a…

  • Work started at 6:00am this morning with snow plowing which finished about 10:30 just as the next job was clammering for attention. The hectic day had begun when it occured to me to stop, eat something and do the medi…

  • The objective of this weblog is to focus narrowly on the AA program. Generally weblogs are much broader is scope. Writers discuss their program and a variety of other subjects. This weblog will be different in respec…

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