I made a document for the group. I decided that the group is not ready to really see how the Traditions are laid out because it will take away from the simple experience of going through the book itself, but I made a document for them to study on their own and I am going … Continue reading An Addendum To Last Week’s Post
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Week 6: There Is A Solution Lays Out All The Traditions
THERE IS A SOLUTION It is a bold statement for me to make that There Is A Solution lays out all the Traditions, but there they are! This means that the Traditions, which were published about 15 years after the book Alcoholics Anonymous, have been a part of AA since it's inception - which a … Continue reading Week 6: There Is A Solution Lays Out All The Traditions
Week 5: The Significance of The Sobriety Date
When I came in, we used to introduce ourselves with our first and last name, and our sobriety date. Why? We are not anonymous within our own fellowship and we want people to be able to get in touch with us. We stated our sobriety date because Alcoholism lives in the gray area of whenever … Continue reading Week 5: The Significance of The Sobriety Date
Day 3: The Law of Investment
I have been trying to figure out what is going on in AA lately. Today, being the 4th week of the workshop, 6 of the 13 people who normally have been showing up decided not to show up this week. One of them "sent me a text". What if I decided not to show up? … Continue reading Day 3: The Law of Investment
Day 2 of Our Big Book Workshop
We started off on Roman Numeral 17 - xvii of the 2nd Edition Forward. The first thing that was remarked upon, since I was reading out of a 2nd Edition and the rest of the group were using the 4th Edition to read the 2nd Edition Forward, is that someone changed the 2nd Edition Forward, … Continue reading Day 2 of Our Big Book Workshop
Day 1 of our Big Book Workshop
First of all, the difference between a study and a workshop is that in a workshop the group actually goes through all the steps together as a group. The history is described here; https://bigbookrecovered.org/golden-slippers-history/ because where I learned to do this came from a recovered alcoholic who was in this workshop. Of that group of … Continue reading Day 1 of our Big Book Workshop
Incrementally Easing God Out
This is from the Daily Reflections today... This may seem nit picky to some of you newcomers to the honey fuggling mess that is GSO - but I assure you it is not! The footnote of this statement "Continued to take personal inventory" is from p. 59 of the book, Alcoholics Anonymous, which is our … Continue reading Incrementally Easing God Out
What is it to be Anonymous?
We are called to be Anonymous. There are plenty of drunken bums out there, happy to be just that - drunken bums. Some of them live under bridges and some of them are white-collar lawyers and stock exchange traders - but what they are is satisfied with being drunken bums. Happy and satisfied with not … Continue reading What is it to be Anonymous?
The Fellowship Outside of Meetings
Today my sponsee called me crying. She is just over a year sober. Someone - an oldtimer - had invited her to a potluck at his house with a bunch of other AAers and she just did not want to go. She had told him she would go, but then her best friend backed out … Continue reading The Fellowship Outside of Meetings
The Chairman’s Job At An AA Meeting
The chairman's job is to keep the meeting on track, to uphold the Traditions and the group's mission statement. In the old days, the Chairman was a trusted servant's elected position about which a detailed pamphlet was written and is in the archives at GSO. Sorry, I don't seem to have a copy of it … Continue reading The Chairman’s Job At An AA Meeting
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