Good Morning
1)
I see the big book as a 'manual' for living sober and content.
Tend to follow the manual because i already have accepted that i don't know how to live sober my way.
When i used to fix my car, i would follow the manual until i decided to skip bits or take 'my' shortcuts.
Most often the car was at the garage days later in a worse state than when i'd started!!!
2)
I see my role of chairperson at one meeting as that of a facilitator.
Nothing more.
I open the meeting, help it run smoothly and close it when appropriate.
I observe traditions and avoid controversy.
3)
BB references in italics seem to be used to emphasize certain ideas, salient points and important concepts.
These are usually explored in the text that precedes or follows.
4)
Up to you if you resign.
I had opinions on everything when i first joined the fellowship.
Indeed, my best thinking had gotten me drunk on the floor, surrounded by my own filth, begging to a God that i had turned from for mercy!
Then i had to get 'stupid'.
I decided to do what was suggested by sober folk in the meetings.
And set my shining intellect aside for a while.
And i started getting sober....
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