Evidence Journal: Training Your Eyes to See God at Work Bill W. wrote in Concept Nine’s essay, “Leadership in A.A. – Ever a Vital Need” that a good idea can come from anywhere. The key to allowing that to be true in ones life is when we can sit back and listen, truly listen to …

If there were badges handed out in Alcoholics Anonymous (which there aren’t), some of the most powerful people in the rooms would be wearing one that reads: PRD — Pattern Recognition Detective Not because they’re perfect. Not because they’ve “arrived.” But because they’ve learned to see something most of us couldn’t see when we first …

There is something in us that knows we were made for more. Not more excitement. Not more drama. Not more chaos. More peace. More alignment. More wholeness. In A.A., we talk about being “restored to sanity.” We talk about living “in the sunlight of the Spirit.” We talk about “conscious contact with God.” If you ...

On this cold and wintery day here in Texas, I wanted to share a new book I just finished titled, “The Prep Steps – Setting Up Action in A.A.” I will be publishing it and making it available here on this site in the LIBRARY section early this week, but I wanted to share a …

Tonight at my home group, the chair chose to read from page 161 of the Big Book to remind us all that we have much to be grateful for. He closed his share before opening it up by saying, “I should be dead.”  I was really glad he did because I’ve seen so much apathy …

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 …

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 …

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 ...

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 …

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 …