To My Valued Readers: The BAD News, I’ve been hospitalized, and incapacitated for the last few weeks due to COVID. The GOOD News, I am now climbing out of the cellar, and showing signs of improvement. Rest assured, in time, Prime Sobriety will be up and running, and back to normal. I thank you for […]
For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority – a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern. Tradition 2. This post is not going to be about all the people I’ve known over the years who have assumed the
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Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you would rather have talked.~ Mark Twain There are a lot of different meeting formats, which is good news for the chronic malcontent. Just to name a few, there are step meetings, Big Book meetings, open discussion meetings,and open speaker meetings …a wrench
– A good person pays back favors; A wise one pays them forward. As usual, I got to my meeting early this evening.As usual, the meeting room was deserted. However, there was a solitary figure sitting off to the side, against the wall. Although the Mask Mandate has since been
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No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others. Fifth Promise of Alcoholics Anonymous, chapter 6, the Big Book My Home group, Way of Life, meets Saturday morning at 10:30. I’d been hearing about how great that meeting was, and how I should
– Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid. ~ Goethe When I dragged ass into my first meeting, the only thing I was really focusing on was to not drink or drug. That was it. It was brutally clear that I couldn’t do it on my own. I’d heard about Alcoholics Anonymous
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– Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless. ~ Thomas A. Edison Progress not perfection is the hint that a 12 step program is a journey of discovery. When I first joined Alcoholics Anonymous, I ignored the whole ’90 & 90′ thing; You know,“Try doing ninety
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It is easy to let up on the spiritual program of action and rest on our laurels. – Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, page 85, Into Action If I don’t pay attention and force myself out of my comfort zone on a daily basis, my natural proclivity is to coast and goof off. Complacency is
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There’s a lot to be said for sleeping like a log. I was at a meeting the other evening , and as usual, the chairperson asked if anyone was having a problem staying away from a drink…Or was plagued with any issues they needed to discuss. A newcomer raised his hand. His complaint was his
The reason why we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel. Thank God for Alcoholics Anonymous. I am convinced the grace of God entered my life at my very first meeting. For some unfathomable reason, I was more interested in what was going to happen, rather than being
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