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AA is not a spectator sport
A great share at a meeting – “Drinking is not a spectator sport, and neither is AA.” I cannot enjoy ...
Stay on the Program Bus
“Stay on the bus, the scenery will change. Get off, and you are there forever.” --Heard at a recent meeting ...
Breaking into the Bank
I came to AA and found two dimensions: The Program and the Fellowship. At first, I paid more attention to ...
Look where you want to go
I am not interested in sky diving. But a fellow I know in the Program is; and he taught me ...
Tale of Two Quotes
“God will never give us more than we can handle.” I have learned that this is not true. The world ...
Our Understooding of God
In the Steps, when we refer to how we think about God, the past tense is used. We talk about ...
Causes and conditions
With Step 4 we “get down to causes and conditions.” At a recent meeting, this topic came up and we ...
Plant your pole and fly
At a recent meeting, I saw a T‑shirt. It was a simple T‑shirt with a profound message. On the T‑shirt ...
The Program is a Scientific Way of Life
One of the principles of the Steps is ‘repeated rigorous and demanding investigation and experimentation’ with life. We rigorously examine ...
Normal is a setting
One of the shares at the Welcome Group meeting was, “Normal is a setting on the dryer, not a way ...
Membership is not free
There are no free memberships in AA. The MasterCard commercials of past years had a series of items with a ...
From Chaos to Control
My first words in the Program were, “My name is Andy…and I am here.” An old timer asked, “So why ...
From Fear to Fun
We are very clear in our 12 Step work with newcomers: “continue to drink and the choices are slow death, ...
