July 28, 2021 In Legacy of Recovery By Rick W.
If you’ve been around A.A. for a minute, you’ve probably heard the many slogans we use in meeting rooms (and that hang on meeting room walls). There are only three official slogans in our program (found in the first 164 pages) and they are, “First Things First”, “Live and Let Live”, and “Easy Does It” …
July 26, 2021 In Legacy of Recovery By Rick W.
Hello family… I was sitting in an A.A. speaker meeting yesterday and the speaker was sharing his experience, strength, and hope on the chapter in the Big Book titled, “We Agnostics”. He had lots of amazing insight after his 26 years of experience in the book, and he shared something I had never heard before …
July 25, 2021 In Legacy of Recovery By Rick W.
My home group (getinthecar.org) is a hybrid closed Big Book Study that meets only once a week on Friday night’s at 7:30pm CST. This past Friday night, we were reading in “Bill’s Story”, and we picked up where we left off last week on the bottom of page 14…. “My friend had emphasized the absolute …
July 17, 2021 In General Information By Rick W.
I was asked to speak at 50th group Anniversary tonight and as I like to do when speaking at a group anniversary, I did some research to find out what was going on the year the group was founded. I searched “Alcoholics Anonymous 1971” to see what came up, and I found a beautiful memorial …
June 25, 2021 In Legacy of Recovery By Rick W.
Each morning, I’m part of a group SMS text of men in the A.A. Fellowship. I thought I would share my entry this morning because it hit me really hard and was a great reminder for me…. God Bless! “Morning guys, I was reading one of my morning meditations this morning I got in my …
June 24, 2021 In General Information By Rick W.
The Literature Desk at G.S.O. recently sent out a letter to the Areas in the U.S. and Canada with an update on their activity and one VERY COOL thing they shared was a Glide App for A.A. literature that was created by Area 8. If you are looking for a really cool way to access …
June 16, 2021 In General Information By Rick W.
Service Material from the A.A. General Service Office (smf-129-en) ORIGIN OF THE SERENITY PRAYER: A HISTORICAL PAPER The actual origin of the “Serenity Prayer” has been, over the years, a tantalizing, elusive and, some still feel, an unsolved mystery; intriguing to those of us at G.S.O. who have, at one time or another, attempted to …
May 8, 2021 In Legacy of Recovery By Rick W.
I was digging around the internet the other day and ran across an interesting article written by Cameron F. from Toronto ON where he was sharing on a book that I have read by Wally P., “Back to Basics: The Alcoholics Anonymous Beginners’ Meetings.” While this book is not Conference approved literature, Wally was an …
May 7, 2021 In Legacy of Recovery By Rick W.
I was recently in a noon ZOOM meeting in Washington D.C. and the topic was insanity and all its forms (early sobriety and beyond). I heard some wonderful shares from the folks in this meeting but one woman’s share really stood out to me (likely because I could relate to it). At one point during …
April 28, 2021 In Legacy of Recovery By Rick W.
I'm certain that many of you have had a similar experience, but since 2014 I've had a guy I met in a meeting where I used to live continually slide into my DM's with messages like (in order over the last 7 years): "Hanging by a thread" "I don't even want to be awake now. ...
