Originally Posted by Time4Me
I hear ya!
If it weren't for my weekly agnostic AA meeting (although I have a HP) which is filled with old timers - most with 20 plus years of sobriety - who have mosly done it their way, who are filled with irreverence, intelligence, humor and zest for life, who allow me to spill out any negativity or fanaticism that I experience in other traditional meetings, I would not be able to be in the program.
We end each meeting with a simple "Live and Let Live" rather than a prayer.
Cool - yes, give me intelligence, wit, humour, cyncicism. Rather that than:
Said in a droll voice: Today I have serentiy, because I hand it over. Today I dont fear anything because I hand it over.
Of course, not everyone in AA is like that, far from it - but I have just had some bad experiences recently. Sometimes I put personalites before principals. I did not get sober to serve God.