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Under New Management
07 Jan 2024

Under New Management

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 …

Does God Have a Gender?
31 Dec 2023

Does God Have a Gender?

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 …

7 Points to My Higher Power
26 Dec 2023

7 Points to My Higher Power

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 …

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“A.A.’s Twelve Steps are a group of principles, spiritual in their nature, which, if practiced as a way of life, can expel the obsession to drink and enable the sufferer to become happily and usefully whole.”

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“A.A.’s Twelve Traditions apply to the life of the Fellowship itself. They outline the means by which A.A. maintains its unity and relates itself to the world about it, the way it lives and grows.” - from the Foreword of the 12&12

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The Twelve Concepts for World Service were written by A.A.’s co-founder Bill W., and are an interpretation of A.A.’s world service structure as it emerged through A.A.’s early history and experience.

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The primary purpose of this site is to share with those who have a desire to stop drinking, one individual A.A. member’s journey & experience (sober since November 17, 1987) of taking the 12 Steps, studying the 12 Traditions and 12 Concepts for World Service.

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