I too, bucked the AA system when I first quit, ....the old timers..........and some of those charming phrases they freely tossed out.
What I have come to learn is................It was really ME I was trying to buck.
being told (or suggested) what to do, by someone who has what I so desperately wanted and needed (and who could show me the way)?
having my defects pointed out?
Being told I CANT do it by myself?
That I MUST rid my past baggage in order to be FREE?
Sincerely apologize to those I totally screwed over in the past?
That I really MUST help others?
cunning ............baffling............powerful
Yes it is.
The program of AA is in the Big Book, period...
exactly
What has truly helped me.....learning...."Open Mindedness"
Something I was told here recently (when questioning why some of it takes so darn long).........
In Gods own Time
good thread BTW