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THINGS TO DO AND PLACES TO GO Third Weekenders Camping
Agua Caliente
Where: 39555 County Route S2
When: April 19 - 21
Contact: Bill H: holmes.family.8925@gmail.com
38th Annual
Hospitals and Institutions Conference
Where: Sheraton Hotel - 1050 Schooner Dr, Ventura When: April 5 - 7
Contact: Central Office 619-265-8762
39th Annual Northern California Woman to Woman Conference
Where: Marriott Hotel - 11211 Point E Dr, Rancho Cordova When: April 5 - 7
Contact: Central Office 619-265-8762
37th Anniversary Old Town Speakers Potluck and Meeting
Where: Church - 6551 Soledad Mountain Rd, La Jolla When: April 14 Potluck 5:00 pm Meeting 7:00 pm Contact: Central Office 619-265-8762
San Diego Spring Round Up There Is A Solution
Where: Town & Country Hotel 500 Hotel Circle N, San Diego When: April 18 - 21
Contact: Central Office 619-265-8762
34th Annual Laguna Mountain May Day Madness Where: Lake Henshaw 26439 Highway 76, Santa Ysabel When: May 3 - 5
Contact: Central Office 619-265-8762
Spring Into Service
Where: Machinist's Hall 5150 Kearny Mesa Rd, San Diego
When: May 19
Contact: chairsandiegohandi@gmail.com
84th Anniversary of Alcoholics Anonymous Where: Akron, OH
When: June 7 - 9
Contact: Central Office 619-265-8762
San Diego Intergroup's Founders Day Picnic/Area Unity Day Where: Harry Griffin Park site 2 9550 Milden St, La Mesa When: Saturday, June 15, 10:30 am - 3:30 pm
Contact: Central Office 619-265-8762
Big Book "Acceptance was the Answer" page 417
And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing, or situation - some fact of my life - unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing, or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment. Nothing, absolutely nothing happens in God's world by mistake. Until I could accept my alcoholism, I could not stay sober; unless I accept life completely on life's terms, I cannot be happy. I need to concentrate not so much on what needs to be changed in the world as on what needs to be changed in me and my attitudes.
Reprinted with permission from A.A.W.S.
Dr. Bob and the Good Oldtimers page 222
On his desk, Dr. Bob had a plaque defining humility: "Perpetual quietness of heart. It is to have no trouble. It is never to be fretted or vexed, irritable or sore; to wonder at nothing that is done to me, to feel nothing done against me. It is to be at rest when nobody praises me, and when I am blamed or despised, it is to have a blessed home in myself where I can go in and shut the door and kneel to my Father in secret and be at peace, as un a deep sea of calmness, when all around is seeming trouble."
Reprinted with permission from A.A.W.S.
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions page 40
It is when we try to make our will conform with God's that we begin to use it rightly, To all of us this was a most wonderful revelation. Our whole trouble had been the misuse of willpower. We had tried to bombard our problems with it instead of attempting to bring it into agreement with God's intention for us. Reprinted with permission from A.A.W.S.
Big Book page 25
"We have found much of heaven and we have been rocketed into a fourth dimension of existence of which we had not even dreamed."
Reprinted with permission from A.A.W.S.