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long drive would be avoided, but I would miss the desert sunrise, the beautiful rock formations, and, most importantly, the company of my A.A. family!
Things Started Working for Me When:
Service experience is what we make of it, and, with the right attitude, it can all be fun.
Blaine H.
Resentments.
4. My Giving Outweighed My Taking.
5. My Faith Outweighed My Fear.
6. My Unselfishness Outweighed My Greed. 7. My Service Outweighed My Neglect.
8. My Acceptance outweighed My Criticism. 9. My Caring Outweighed My Indifference. 10. My Empathy Outweighed My Contempt. 11. My Perspective Outweighed My Opinion. 12. My Smiles Outweighed My Smirks.
13. My Calmness Outweighed My Rage.
14. My Understanding Outweighed My
Excerpt from the
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, Forward, pages 16-17
"Alcoholics Anonymous began in 1935 at Akron, Ohio as the outcome of a meeting between a well- known surgeon and a New York broker. Both were severe cases of alcoholism and were destined to become co-founders of the A.A.
Confusion.
15. My Virtues Outweighed My Faults.
16. My Hope Outweighed My Distrust.
17. My Gratitude Outweighed My Dismay.
18. My Kindness Outweighed My Spite.
19. My Principles Outweighed My Delusions. 20. My Happiness Outweighed My Pain.
21. My Confidence Outweighed My Insecurity 22. My Maturity Outweighed My
Fellowship.
The basic principles of A.A., as they are known today were borrowed mainly from the fields of religion and medicine, though some ideas upon which success finally depended were the result of noting the behavior and needs of the Fellowship itself.
After three years of trial and error in selecting the most workable tenets upon which the Society could be based and after a large amount of failure in getting alcoholics to recover, three successful groups emerged – the first at Akron, the second at New York, and the third at Cleveland. Even then it was hard to find twoscore of sure recoveries in all three groups
Nevertheless, the infant Society determined to set down its experience in a book which finally reached the public in April 1939. At this time the recoveries numbered about one hundred. The book was called “Alcoholics Anonymous” and from it the Fellowship took its name.”
Childishness...
I Could Go on Forever. Rick R.
Reprinted with permission from A.A.W.S.
From the Big Book, page 60
"Do not be discouraged. No one among us has been able to maintain anything like perfect adherence to these principles. We are not saints. The point is, that we are willing to grow along spiritual lines. The principles we have set down are guides to progress. We claim spiritual progress rather than spiritual perfection." Reprinted with permission from A.A.W.S.
1. My Desperation Outweighed My Denial. 2. My Conscience Outweighed My EGO.
3. My Compassion Outweighed My
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