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“God will never give us more than we can handle.” I have learned that this is not true. The world ...

I wear glasses to improve my vision.  My glasses alter what I see. My glasses don’t change the outside world, ...

Imagine a ski hill; I am standing with you, my student. “Turn where I turn,” I instruct, then I take ...

In the Steps, when we refer to how we think about God, the past tense is used. We talk about ...

With Step 4 we “get down to causes and conditions.” At a recent meeting, this topic came up and we ...

I heard this at a meeting recently: “Ethyl, my old friend. Ethyl Alcohol was a great old girl. She made ...

“It is not what we don’t know that gets us in trouble, it is what we think we know that ...

At a recent meeting, I saw a T‑shirt.  It was a simple T‑shirt with a profound message. On the T‑shirt ...

One of the principles of the Steps is ‘repeated rigorous and demanding investigation and experimentation’ with life.  We rigorously examine ...

One of the shares at the Welcome Group meeting was, “Normal is a setting on the dryer, not a way ...

There are no free memberships in AA. The MasterCard commercials of past years had a series of items with a ...

I remember seeing bumper stickers that read “God is my Co-Pilot.” I have felt that statement in my life. There ...

My first words in the Program were, “My name is Andy…and I am here.” An old timer asked, “So why ...

Heard at a recent meeting: “With inventories and amends, we are unwinding our personal histories.” I see in my mind’s ...

Before I came to the Program and began working the steps, my spiritual legs had atrophied. There were two reasons, ...

I heard a great share the other night:  “Humility gives me the strength to stand up and the willingness to ...