Last night at my home group we had our monthly speaker meeting and birthday celebration for members. We had a wonderful woman, Christie D., come share her experience, strength, & hope (ES&H) and during her share, she said something that really made me sit up in my chair. Just as she was hitting her bottom …
I have created a new section of the site to house all of the audio files I have created for my A.A. family. I will be updating it from time to time with new files I want to share with you. The newest file I added today is “An A.A.’s Morning Prayer.” I don’t know …
As I begin a new year, I was listening this morning to one of my favorite spiritual teachers talk about how this is a season for new beginnings and a time for remembering. A time for new beginnings that could instill new commitments (or re-commitments) and a time for remembering who we are, but even …
Well… it all depends on who you ask! If you do a simple Google search on the question, “Does god have a gender,” you will get all kinds of search results that talk about this topic. But, as a sober member of Alcoholics Anonymous, all I have on this topic is MY own experience. I …
Greetings family…. last night at my home group, we have a wonderful discussion on passages from “We Agnostics.” Members shared how they got to their conception of a Higher Power. Other members shared of their struggle. It really stayed with me and today I sat down and wrote out how I got to mine. After …
Last night in my home group’s closed big book study, we read the title of this post on page 40 in the chapter, More About Alcoholism, in “Fred’s Story.” As we read on, on page 41, the statements, “the thought came to mind,” and “it struck me” jumped off the page at me. There was …
With all of the insanity we see on social media these days, it’s a blessing when we see something that supports the work we are doing in our program (and it’s nots specifically 12-Step related). Enjoy. “A teacher gave a balloon to every student, who had to inflate it, write their name on it, and …
As many of you know, I launched LegAAcy Chat in January 2022, a podcast by and for members of A.A. to share their experience, strength, and hope on ALL THREE of our legacies in Alcoholics Anonymous. The primary purpose of of each episode is to create a discussion space of our three legacies so listeners might be …
73 years ago today, on November 16, 1950, with over 15 years of continuous sobriety, the co-founder of the miracle that is Alcoholics Anonymous, Dr. Robert Holbrook Smith, known to most of us lovingly and reverently as Dr. Bob, uttered the words, “This is it” and passed in pain from cancer in this life to …
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