~A.A.
Thoughts
For
The
Day~
A "spiritual experience" to me meant attending
meetings, seeing a group of people, all there for the purpose of helping
each other; hearing the Twelve Steps and the Twelve Traditions read at a
meeting, and hearing the Lord's Prayer, which in an A.A. meeting has such
great meaning - "Thy will be done, not mine." A spiritual
awakening soon came to mean trying each day to be a little more thoughtful,
more considerate, a little more courteous to those with whom I came in
contact.
c. 2001, Alcoholics Anonymous, p.
356
Thought
to Consider . . .
The ankle-biters of everyday struggles will eat away
at me unless I go to meetings and call my sponsor.
*~*AACRONYMS*~*
C A R E
Comforting And Reassuring Each
other
"Even as early as 1945, the solution of group problems by correspondence had put a large volume of work on Headquarters. Letters to metropolitan A.A. centers filled our bulging files. It seemed as if every contestant in every group argument wrote us during this confused and exciting period.
The
basic ideas for the
Twelve Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous came directly out of this vast
correspondence. In late 1945 a good A.A. friend suggested that all this
mass of
experience might be codified into a set of principles which could offer
tested
solutions to all our problems of living and working together and of
relating our
society to the world outside. If we had become sure enough of where we
really
stood on such matters as membership, group autonomy, singleness of
purpose, nonendorsement of other enterprises, professionalism, public
controversy, and
anonymity in its several aspects, then such a set of principles could be
written. A code of traditions could not, of course, ever become rule or
law. But
it might act as a guide for our Trustees, Headquarters people, and
especially
for A.A. groups with growing pains."
2001 AAWS, Inc.
Alcoholics
Anonymous Comes of Age, pg. 203