September 29, 2020
Doing The Amends List Work Just after finishing the Third Step Prayer, my sponsor, Carl, had me ask God for help with my Fourth Step information […]
June 23, 2020
Step Seven begins: “My Creator, I am now willing that you should have all of me, good and bad.” Why should I ask God to take […]
February 7, 2020
It’s a phrase heard in A.A. meetings around the world. But where does it come from? Why do we say it? And should we keep doing […]
December 19, 2019
The Big Book tells us that alcoholics drink because they are “restless, irritable and discontented.” (xxvi) Well, that wasn’t me! I even drank when everything was […]
October 30, 2019
These questions were originally published in the AA Grapevine in conjunction with a series on the Twelve Traditions that began in November 1969 and ran through […]
October 23, 2019
Some questions that can be helpful in evaluating whether our actions may or may not be in conflict with the principles of humility and sacrifice that […]
October 1, 2019
“Our membership ought to include all who suffer from alcoholism. Hence we may refuse none who wish to recover. Nor ought A.A. membership ever depend upon […]
August 29, 2019
There is some wild myth being circulated that there are very few “pure” alcoholics left and therefore singleness of purpose is no longer valid. Recent statistics […]
June 4, 2019
Revealing my innermost secrets via the Fifth Step would have been terrifying in anticipation had my sponsor, gave me time for consideration. But thank God he […]
February 27, 2019
In early sobriety I believed that praying the Third Step Prayer several times every day, plus daily AA meetings, would bring an end my terrifying obsession […]
February 6, 2019
She Didn’t Find It Too Comforting. I was sitting at a meeting recently when I heard a very young, and very sincere, single mother of two, […]
January 3, 2019
When describing step nine in the big book it says that “if we are painstaking about this phase of our development we will be amazed before […]