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THINGS TO DO AND PLACES TO GO Third Weekenders Camping Potrero County Park
Where: 24800 Potrero Park Drive
When: December 13-15
Contact: Bill H: holmes.family.8925@gmail.com
34th Annual Thanksgiving Day Grateful Meeting
Where: Church, 6554 Cowles Mtn. Blvd., San Carlos When: Thursday, November 28, 10:00 am Contact: Central Office 619-265-8762
Battery Chargers 19th Annual Thanksgiving Alcathon
Where: Church Hall, 8086 Broadway, Lemon Grove When: Thursday, November 28, 10:00 am - 9:00 pm Contact: John R at turkeythonbc@gmail.com
34th Annual ROOTS Event Remember Our Old Timers' Stories
Where: Comm Ctr, 3096 Harding St, Carlsbad When: Saturday, November 30, 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm Contact: archives8@area8aa.org
New Year's Eve 2019 Speakers Meeting and Sober Dance
Where: Marina Village, Captain's Rm, 1936 Quivira Wy, San Diego When: Tuesday, December 31, 7:00 pm
Contact: nyesoberdance.event@gmail.com
2020 International Convention Where: Detroit, Michigan
When: July 2-5, 2020
Contact: Central Office 619-265-8762
Big Book; "The Man Who Mastered Fear" pages 256-257
"Some of the things that used to stop me in my tracks from fear still make me nervous in the anticipation of their doing, but once I kick myself into doing them, nervousness disappears and I enjoy myself. In recent years I have had the happy combination of time and money to travel occasionally. I am apt to get into quite an uproar for a day or two before starting, but I do start, and once started, I have a swell time.
Have I ever wanted a drink during these years? Only once did I suffer from a nearly overpowering compulsion to take a drink. Oddly enough, the circumstances and surroundings were pleasant. I was at a beautifully set dinner table. I was in a perfectly happy frame of mind. I had been in A.A. a year, and the last thing in my mind was a drink. There was a glass of sherry at my place. I was seized with an almost uncontrollable desire to reach out for it. I shut my eyes and asked for help. In fifteen seconds or less, the feeling passed. There have also been numerous times when I have thought about taking a drink. Such thinking usually began with thoughts of the pleasant drinking of my youth. I learned early in my A.A. life that I could not afford to fondle such thoughts, as you might fondle a pet, because this particular pet could grow into a monster. Instead I quickly substitute one or another vivid scene from the nightmare of my later drinking." Reprinted with permission from A.A.W.S.
Big Book; "Bill's Story"
pages 14 - 15
"My friend had emphasized the absolute necessity of demonstrating these principles in all my affairs. Particularly was it imperative to work with others as he had worked with me. Faith without works was dead, he said. And how appallingly true for the alcoholic! For if an alcoholic failed to perfect and enlarge his spiritual life through work and self-sacrifice for others, he could not survive the certain trials and low spots ahead. If he did not work, he would surely drink again, and if he drank, he would surely die. Then faith would be dead indeed. With us it is just like that." Reprinted with permission from A.A.W.S.
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions,
Tradition Five, page 150
"Each group has but one primary purpose - to carry its message to the alcoholic who still suffers."
"Alcoholics Anonymous can be likened to a group of physicians who might find a cure for cancer, and upon whose concerted work would depend the answer for sufferers of this disease. True, each physician in such a group might have his own specialty. Every doctor concerned would at times wish he could devote himself to his chosen field rather that work only with the group. But once these men had hit upon a cure, once it became apparent that only by their united effort could this be accomplished, then all of them would feel bound to devote themselves solely to the relief of cancer. In the radiance of such a miraculous discovery, any doctor would set his other ambitions aside at whatever personal cost."
Reprinted with permission from A.A.W.S.
Big Book page 17
"The tremendous fact for every one of us is that we have discovered a common solution." Reprinted with permission from A.A.W.S.
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