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 when other activities fail.” They …
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 not. What I DIDN’T know …
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 is the how and why …
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