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On Making Your Bed
On Sunday, November 2, 2024 (which is getting close to being 4 months ago at the time of this writing), I had literally nothing on my calendar for that day except to go to church. Having a \”free\” Sunday is very unusual for me, but I was grateful. At that

The Ashes Behind Me
I was sitting in a meeting tonight at my home group and we were reading, \”Doctor Bob\’s Nightmare.\” It was an amazing meeting and as members were sharing their identification with Dr. Bob, one of our members shared something that their sponsor had shared with them I don\’t think I\’d

A Step Six Exercise
On this Christmas Eve, I sat down this morning with one of my sponsees to read about Step Six. He and I have already taken the Steps together and when we were done, we decided to go back and spend some time specifically on Steps Six and Seven by reading

Inventory: Why?
What Does a 4th Step Have To Do With Not Drinking? When I first came into A.A., I had no understanding of why it was important for me to look at my life and how I had caused hurt & harm to those around me. I had no idea why

Unity
Hello family, my name is Rick, and I’m an alcoholic. My sobriety date is November 17, 1987. I want to start off with a blanket statement: “The capacity of Alcoholics Anonymous to accept change – has been central to its ability to remain relevant.” So, what does a statement like

Practical Experience Shows….
Recently at my home group in a literature discussion meeting, the chair chose to read from page 95 in the chapter, Working With Others, and started with the first paragraph… “PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE shows that nothing will so much insure immunity from drinking as intensive work with other alcoholics. It works

Fear, the Problem and the Solution
I didn\’t know when I waked in the doors that you would be teaching me things that would help me deal with the life I had burned to the ground (unbeknownst to me…lol). I thought maybe, just maybe you would help me better understand if I was an alcoholic or

Bait & Switch
How many of you reading this post came to A.A. to stop drinking? How many of you thought you had a drinking problem and someone told you A.A. could fix it for you? Tonight at my home group, the chair pulled tonights topic from the Big Book page 62… \”This
