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jimhere · 11-07-2009, 09:29 AM

I could write a big long post about how to work with alcoholics, but it is all spelled out and stacked up in Chapter 7. Might want to go over that chapter.

Thanks for doing this work. To me this is the real work of Alcoholics Anonymous, the work the book means when it speaks "Doing the work." The work that not a lot of AA members want to do anymore. Mostly, we sit in our comfy little meetings and wait for them to come to us and then we hand them a meeting schedule with a bunch of phone numbers on it and think we have done 12th-Step work.

So, God bless you for being willing to do this work.
Jim

11-07-2009, 09:29 AM	#2 (permalink)
jimhere Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Pugetopolis Posts: 2,392	I could write a big long post about how to work with alcoholics, but it is all spelled out and stacked up in Chapter 7. Might want to go over that chapter. Thanks for doing this work. To me this is the real work of Alcoholics Anonymous, the work the book means when it speaks "Doing the work." The work that not a lot of AA members want to do anymore. Mostly, we sit in our comfy little meetings and wait for them to come to us and then we hand them a meeting schedule with a bunch of phone numbers on it and think we have done 12th-Step work. So, God bless you for being willing to do this work. Jim