PERSONALITY CHANGE (0)

Posted 30 October, 2007 in As Bill See's It, Meetings

It has often been said of A.A. that we are interested only in
alcoholism. That is not true. We have to get over drinking in order to stay alive. But anyone who knows the alcoholic personality by firsthand contact knows that no true alky ever stops drinking permanently without undergoing a profound personality change.

We thought “conditions” drove us to drink, & when we tried to correct
these conditions & found that we couldn’t do so to our entire satisfaction,
our drinking went out of hand & we needed to change ourselves to meet
conditions, whatever they were.

1. Letter, 1940
2. 12×12, p. 47
© 1967 by A.A. World Services, Inc.

A.A.’s HEARTBEAT (0)

Posted 25 October, 2007 in Daily Reflections, Meetings

Without unity, the heart of A.A. would cease to beat; . . . .
AS BILL SEES IT, p. 125

Without unity I would be unable to recover in A.A. on a daily basis. By practicing unity within my group, with other A.A. members and at all levels of this great Fellowship, I receive a pronounced feeling of knowing that I am a part of a miracle that was divinely inspired. The ability of Bill W. and Dr. Bob, working together and passing it on to other members, tells me that to give it away is to keep it. Unity is oneness and yet the whole Fellowship is for all of us.

First Meeting (5)

Posted 23 October, 2007 in As Bill See's It, Meetings

The first meeting of the new group was held today.

Here is the reading from “As Bill Sees It”

We admitted we could not lick alcohol with our own remaining resources, & so we accepted the further fact that dependence upon a Higher Power (if only our A.A. group) could do this hitherto impossible job. The moment we were able to accept these facts fully, our release from the alcohol compulsion had begun.

For most of us, this pair of acceptances had required a lot of exertion to achieve. Our whole treasured philosophy of self sufficiency had to be cast aside. This had not been done with sheer will power; it came instead as the result of developing the willingness to accept these new facts of living.

We neither ran nor fought. But accept we did. And then we began to be free.