Page 3 - AA NEWS OCTOBER 2019

SLOTH
Just a lazy, slow moving beast.
A defect of mine, to say the least.
Left to my own, I will delay
Til tomorrow what could be done today.
And so, it was from the beginning. The war with booze I was not winning. Many a time I said, “No more!”
But then would end up on the floor.
Finally, I had had enough,
And decided to try this A.A. stuff. The people there were very nice, And tried to give me sound advice.
“Get a book and read it through,
And while at that get a sponsor too.
You will find that when the Steps you’ve taken,
To a spiritual life you will awaken.”
While not the swiftest to do all this,
I overcame sloth and did persist.
The rewards were far more than I could ask,
For in sobriety I now do bask.
And so, to those who would delay,
In taking the Steps, we will only say, “Heed the words of Nike and Michael J. JUST DO IT.”
Blaine H.
Happy Birthday to all Celebrating Sobriety.
Cory H. 7/23/84 35 years
Birthday Gratitude
Name
City/Home Group Sobriety Date Amt. Enclosed
Please mail to:
San Diego Central Office
7075-B Mission Gorge Rd
San Diego, CA 92120-2454
All birthdays submitted will be published the month following submission. Please contact the newsletter chair if a birthday has not been published for two months following submission.
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Total Calls 1,203
Central Office Phone Calls and Website Hits
Meeting
General
12 Step
Daytime
782
175
32
9am-9pm
Nighttime
177
26
11
9pm-9am
Website Visits
Month of August
Total To Date
P/Month
P/Day
107,568
3,500
5,878,923
Many A.A. members celebrate their birthday by sending a donation of one or two dollars for each year of sobriety to Central Office.
If you would like to carry on this tradition, please fill out the form below.