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 …
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