8 / 30 / 2025
1) THE ONLY REQUIREMENT . . .
“At one time every A.A. group had many membership rules. Everybody was scared witless that something or somebody would capsize the boat. . . . The total list was a mile long. If all those rules had been in effect everywhere, nobody could have possibly joined A.A. at all”
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, pp. 139-40
2) FEAR
When, with God’s help, we calmly accepted our lot, then we found we could live at peace with ourselves and show others who still suffered the same fears that they could get over them, too. We found that freedom from fear was more important than freedom from want
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 122
3) COURAGE
“Courage is the willingness to accept fear and act anyway.”
4) SPIRITUALITY HELPS ME
Spirituality makes it possible for me to work for others and to try and help them. It can give me the courage to take good care of myself, to go to meetings even when I don’t think I need a meeting, to speak up when my alcoholism wants to keep my pain to myself.
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