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“Maybe, just maybe, God is an Al-Anon.” Recently an AA brother shared this thought, a thought that would give any ...

A visitor from out of town is always welcome at an AA meeting. Recently a visitor brought a note of ...

The serenity prayer is heard at AA meetings around the world and is a lifesaver when things go wrong. For ...

Our AA brother had been sober for several months. He did not have a sponsor nor anyone else with whom ...

From the beginning in Akron, sponsorship has been a crucial part of AA practice and progress, and it was the ...

At a recent AA meeting, the topic was spiritual progress. A friend shared, and he connected some interesting dots. He ...

The topic of the meeting was acceptance. The first person to share was known for his brevity. He announced his ...

A share at an AA meeting rekindled our joyful passion for the Program. An AA sister spoke; she had a ...

It was our Monday night Step and Topic meeting. There was a group of newcomers, men from a nearby treatment ...

Our AA friend was moving forward in his program. It was his sixth year of sobriety. His sponsor had insisted ...

I heard a share at a recent meeting, “If I am not the problem, then I have no solution.” That ...

It was a regular meeting of lawyers in AA. The topic of the meeting was making amends, Step #9. The ...

The discussion topic at the AA meeting was Step 11, meditation. The first shares were from fellows admitting to problems ...

I was young in the Program.  My sponsor had arranged to meet a newcomer at our regular AA.  I was ...

It was a dark and stormy night, the middle of a political campaign.  There were problems; in the last three ...

More GEMS, A Second Volume of Meditations on Alcoholism and Recovery is available in hard copy, both softcover and hardcover ...