October 4, 2023 In Legacy of Service By Rick W.
Greetings family... As many of you may know, I am currently serving the Fellowship of A.A. in the General Service structure as the Panel 73 Delegate for Area 65 Northeast Texas. This past weekend, the Southwest Region had our "Southwest Regional Forum" in El Paso, Texas and delegates, staff, and trustees in attendance gave some ...
September 23, 2023 In Legacy of Service By Rick W.
(This post was contributed to Take the 12 by Brandy H., Panel 73 Convention Chair, Area 65 Northeast Texas at the request of the creator of this website after hearing her present on this topic at the 2023 NETA65 Fall Assembly and Service Workshop) …………………………………………………………. “I was asked to give a brief presentation at area …
August 8, 2023 In Legacy of Recovery By Rick W.
Last night in my home group’s Big Book study, the chair of the meeting read several passages out of “We Agnostics” and gave a great share on the topic before opening it up to a show of hands. He reminded us that our literature says there are only really two options: 1.) Drink to the bitter …
July 24, 2023 In Legacy of Recovery By Rick W.
In February of 2013, after having had the same sponsor for 16 years, I decided it was time to find a new sponsor. It wasn’t that there was anything wrong with that sponsor I’d had for such a long time, it was simply that I had changed and needed something different. I was at a …
July 23, 2023 In Legacy of Recovery By Rick W.
This weekend, I had the incredible honor of being asked to speak at SERCYPAA 2023 and it was an amazing experience. The excitement, dedication, and commitment in that hotel all centered around recovery was quite honestly – overwhelming at times. To have an opportunity to spend the weekend with over 500 young (or “young at …
July 2, 2023 In Legacy of Recovery By Rick W.
This morning, I was sitting in a study with some spiritually minded-folks and the leader of the study mentioned that in the literature we were studying, there are things that are “descriptive” and things that are “prescriptive.” For some reason, that jumped out at me. Later this afternoon, I took the time to look up …
June 20, 2023 In Legacy of Recovery By Rick W.
I came home from my home group last night and spent some time thinking (“Danger Will Robinson, DANGER!! LOL!). The topic was on the 7th Step which I was so grateful for because I don’t sit in enough meetings about 6 & 7 anymore. I truly believe at over 3 decades of sobriety that Steps …
June 6, 2023 In Legacy of Recovery By Rick W.
Back in May 2020 in the height of the pandemic, I posted this reading from Language of the Heart that Bill wrote in January 1958 (see text and audio version below). It has played a huge part of my sobriety and my sponsee's sobriety. Recently, I had a sponsee of mine who just celebrated 17 ...
May 29, 2023 In General Information, Legacy of Service By Rick W.
I had the honor and privilege of attending the 73rd General Service Conference of Alcoholics Anonymous as the Panel 73 Delegate for Area 65 (Northeast Texas) last month in NYC. I was assigned to the conference committee on Grapevine & La Viña. During both our committee meeting and during the general session of the conference, ...
May 29, 2023 In Legacy of Recovery By Rick W.
This weekend I heard “Reno John” speak at the 37th Annual Gathering of Eagles in Dallas, TX and he was amazing. He said something in his talk that made me stop and think…. he said (and I paraphrase), “There are 72 references to the statement, “useful to others” in the first 164 pages.” I went …
