October 14, 2025 In Legacy of Recovery By Rick W.
I was in a meeting this week with my sponsor, my grand sponsor, my sponsor brothers, and one of my sponsees. We were reading and sharing on Step 10. We read “It is a spiritual axiom that every time we are disturbed, no matter what the cause, there is something wrong with us.” – 12 …
September 19, 2025 In Legacy of Recovery By Rick W.
There’s a line in the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, on pages 66–67, that has changed my life. It’s tucked in the middle of the chapter How It Works where the writers stop telling us what alcoholism is and start telling us what to do about it. “This was our course,” it says, pointing to …
September 8, 2025 In Legacy of Recovery By Rick W.
Tonight at my home group, the chair read the 9th Step Promises and shared what her experience was with them. She mentioned that she went two years with them hanging on the wall of her home group at the time and she never really saw them. She shared it wasn't until she was two years sober ...
July 29, 2025 In General Information By Rick W.
Last night at my home group, the chair did an amazing job of connecting Step 3 to Step 12 and chaired a beautiful discussion about how once we turn our will and lives over to the care of God as we understand God that the natural next step is to give it away. Once we …
July 9, 2025 In Legacy of Unity By Rick W.
“Every A.A. group ought to be fully self‑supporting, declining outside contributions.” — Short Form, Tradition Seven Alcoholics Anonymous thrives when we carry our message through our own efforts—time, energy, and yes, financial contributions—to support our groups. This is more than sound policy; it’s the practical expression of God working through us. As the long form of Tradition Seven …
July 9, 2025 In Legacy of Recovery By Rick W.
There is a strange paradox at the heart of recovery: it begins not with hope, but with hopelessness. Step One in the Fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous says, “We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.” This admission isn’t theoretical. It isn’t poetic. It’s not a polite nod toward the idea that …
April 25, 2025 In Legacy of Recovery By Rick W.
Since getting sober, have you ever said to yourself, “OH HELL NO! I’ll never share that,” or “What could possibly come from me dredging up THAT mess again?” I don’t know about you, but when I did my 4th and 5th Steps, I came face to face with not only a bunch of character defects …
April 8, 2025 In General Information, Legacy of Recovery By Rick W.
I was sitting in a spiritual book study this morning and the topic of forgiveness came up. I love how in this particular study group that it’s a true discussion, learning, and sharing session. We are allowed to ask dumb questions (or at least questions WE think are dumb). One of the women in the …
April 5, 2025 In General Information By Rick W.
I was recently in a book study with a group of spiritually like-minded people and we were discussing the difference between "knowledge" and "wisdom." So, as I often do, I went to get the definitions of the two words to see what I could learn: Knowledge (noun): acquaintance with facts, truths, or principles, as from ...
February 22, 2025 In Legacy of Recovery By Rick W.
On Sunday, November 2, 2024 (which is getting close to being 4 months ago at the time of this writing), I had literally nothing on my calendar for that day except to go to church. Having a “free” Sunday is very unusual for me, but I was grateful. At that same time, I was going …
