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  • "Each member of alcoholics is but a small part of a great whole. AA must continue to live or most of us will surely die. Hence our common welfare comes first. But individual welfare follows close afterward." …

  • Care & feeding of a Spiritual Experience One of the features of the program I have grown to appreciate IS the unlimited spiritual growth. No matter how long you are in the program there is always something new to…

  • Morning quiet time. Readings: Psalm 105, Because I'm Alcoholic Prayers: Lord's Prayer, Third Step Prayer Meditation: Psalm 23 "On awakening let us think about the twenty-four hours ahead. We consider our plans for …

  • Spiritual Awakening After having one myself, I have always listened closely at meetings to hear people describe their spiritual wakening. Eventually everyone tells the story. In most cases the stories are calmly rela…

  • Western Michigan Area Assembly The General Service Conference Area 34 meeting this month was in Portage Michigan, just about fourty-five minutes from my home. I picked up my sponsor and we got there just as the meeti…

  • Memories(?) Once in a while someone will say something in a meeting that brings back memories from my drinking days that makes me shiver and shake my head in terror and disbelief. I was sent to Toledo for three d…

  • God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change… Bad moods, boredom, self-centeredness, resentments, and sloth are all things that we can change. They are all self-inflicted. For those of us who ar…

  • Alcoholics Anonymous, We Agnostics, page 48. “Faced with alcoholic destruction, we soon became as open minded on spiritual matters as we had tried to be on other questions. In this respect alcohol was the great persuade…

  • Reflections on "Student of Life" from Alcoholics Anonymous, page 319 I can’t say enough about the quality of the new stories in the Big Book. They are really well written. I identify with the stories much bette…

  • Everything that irritates us about others can lead to an understanding of ourselves. Carl Jung, psychiatrist

  • Resentment is one of the four major character defects; selfishness, dishonesty, resentment and fear as outlined by the Big Book. Resentment is certainly is one my biggest defects. Resentments are anti-social, emotiona…

  • “I saw that will power and self-knowledge would not help in those strange mental blank spots.” Alcoholics Anonymous, More About Alcoholism, top of page 42. The “mental blank spots” fact shared in this statement is a…

  • High School Days I became alcoholic in high school. It was a difficult time emotionally and alcohol made me feel better. It also made me feel more mature and fed the need to rebel. I can remember the day drinkin…

  • Success from failure. I tried to stop drinking with my will power before I came to AA. Although I didn't accomplish what I set out to do, quit drinking, I did learn that my will power was not strong enough to overcom…

  • Selfishness is my worst character defect. I have spent a lot of time analyzing and trying to correct my behavior. Although selfishness will never go away, it can be occasionally managed, infrequently mastered, and with G…

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