Topics 11/23/2025
1. HOLD YOUR FACE TO THE LIGHT
Believe more deeply. Hold your face up to the Light, even though for the moment you do not see.
AS BILL SEES IT, p. 3
2. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS
STEP 2-“Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.”
At this juncture; his A.A. sponsor usually laughs. This, the newcomer thinks, is just about the last straw. This is the beginning of the end. And so it is: the beginning of the end of his old life, and the beginning of his emergence into a new one. His sponsor probably says, “Take it easy. The hoop you have to jump through is a lot wider than you think. At least I’ve found it so. So did a friend of mine who was a one-time vice-president of the American Atheist Society, but he got through with room to spare.”
p. 26
3. WALK IN DRY PLACES-THE ONLY REASON TO DRINK
“There’s only one real reason I can ever have for taking a drink, and that’s because I want to.”
This remark at a meeting sums up AA’s position on why we drink. We never really drink because of pressures or troubles. We drink because we want to, because we feel like taking a drink. It’s true that serious crisis, like going into bankruptcy, may make us conscious of an urge to drink. But we know that we’re also likely to have such urges in the face of good fortune. The alcoholic who would drink over a bankruptcy would also get drunk if he or she won the lottery. By refusing to accept all these alleged “reasons” for drinking, AA simplifies our problem so we can deal with it. We either want to drink or we don’t want to drink, period. Even if we want to drink….and some members do…AA can show us how to stay sober and eventually lose such desires. Nothing has the power to make me drink today. It is only my own willingness that can destroy my sobriety.
4. Seven days without a meeting makes one weak. -unknown