For Non-AA members ~ What AA is...
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For Non-AA members ~ What AA is...
AA is a fellowship designed and administered by a bunch of ex-drunks whose only qualification for membership are that they can't hold their liquor and don't want to learn how. It has no rules, dues, or fees nor anything else that any sensible organization seems to require. At meetings the speaker starts on one subject and winds up talking about something entirely different and concludes by saying he doesn't know anything about the program except that it works. The groups are always broke, yet always seem to grow. They claim AA is a selfish program, but always seem to be doing something for others. Every group passes laws, rules, edicts and pronouncements which everyone blithely ignores; members who disagree with anything are privileged to walk out in a huff, quitting forever, only to return as though nothing happened and be greeted accordingly. Nothing is ever planned 24 hours ahead, yet great projects are born and survive magnificently. Nothing in AA is according to Hoyle. How can it survive?
Perhaps it's because we have learned to live and laugh at ourselves. God made man. He made laughter too. Perhaps He is pleased with our disorganized efforts and makes things right, no matter who pushes the wrong button. Maybe He is pleased with our trying to be nobody but ourselves. We don't know how it works, but it does and members keep receiving their dividend checks from their AA investments. It is smart to be sober and it is much easier, my friends, to stay sober than to get sober.
(sent to me by a good friend in the fellowship)
Perhaps it's because we have learned to live and laugh at ourselves. God made man. He made laughter too. Perhaps He is pleased with our disorganized efforts and makes things right, no matter who pushes the wrong button. Maybe He is pleased with our trying to be nobody but ourselves. We don't know how it works, but it does and members keep receiving their dividend checks from their AA investments. It is smart to be sober and it is much easier, my friends, to stay sober than to get sober.
(sent to me by a good friend in the fellowship)
Mogqua,
That blerb - which is fantastic - sounds like a quick overall of the 12 steps and 12 traditions at work. The 12 steps are for our personal growth and development while the 12 traditions hold the groups together (and as some put it - so we don't kill each other!!!). I will have to copy that down and share it at the groups - BubbaBob is right, if that hasn't been submitted to the Grapevine, it definitely should be.
Thanks for sharing,
Jen
That blerb - which is fantastic - sounds like a quick overall of the 12 steps and 12 traditions at work. The 12 steps are for our personal growth and development while the 12 traditions hold the groups together (and as some put it - so we don't kill each other!!!). I will have to copy that down and share it at the groups - BubbaBob is right, if that hasn't been submitted to the Grapevine, it definitely should be.
Thanks for sharing,
Jen
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