Hi, a woman passed this out last night at my womens meeting, so thought I would share it here as well. Its from the AA grapvine. pg. 54 Feb 2006
An AA wonders how it works
Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship designed and administered by a bunch of ex-drunks whose only qualification for membership is that we finally realized that we couldn't hold our liquor and wanted to stop trying to impossibly learn how to hold it successfully. It has no rules, dues, or fees, nor anthing else that any sensible organization seems to require.
At meetings, the speaker starts on one subject, 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 often broke, yet always seem to have money to carry on. We are always losing members, but seem to grow. We 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 free to walk out in a huff, quitting forever, only to return as though nothing happened, and be greeted accordingly.
Nothing we discuss in AA is planned in advance, yet great results are born from the things we share with each other, and our lives get better. How can we survive like this?
Perhaps it's because we have learned to live and laugh at ourselves and with each other. God made us. He made laughter, too. Perhaps he is pleased with our disorganized efforts and makes things right no matter who pushes the wrong buttons. Maybe God is pleased with our simple yet sincere efforts to do what's right for us and others. 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 wise to be sober, and it is much easier, my friends, to stay sober than it is to get sober.
Anonymous
Excellent! Thanks.
I really like that.
Gina - thanks
It is AA and people like you who share freely what they have been given freely that help me stay sober one day at a time. Keep doing what you are doing, IT WORKS. :-)
It is AA and people like you who share freely what they have been given freely that help me stay sober one day at a time. Keep doing what you are doing, IT WORKS. :-)
RE>>Members who disagree with anything are free to walk out in a huff, quitting forever, only to return as though nothing happened, and be greeted accordingly.>>>
That may be true of AA but not MM. (Moderation Management)
Over at MM everyone IS mad on the same day. You say something they do not like and so they hold a grudge forever.
I am still doing the modsing thing (kinda) but one my own, not through MM.
Cailyn
That may be true of AA but not MM. (Moderation Management)
Over at MM everyone IS mad on the same day. You say something they do not like and so they hold a grudge forever.
I am still doing the modsing thing (kinda) but one my own, not through MM.
Cailyn
Hello to everyone.
Hi Gina enjoyed your post.
Hi Cailyn .I think one of the reasons AA works is because. We are not all mad on the same day. I can go to a meeting of alcoholics anonymous with a single horseman in my head riding of in 40 different directions(mad) an know I can listen to or talk to someone in the room who is having a good day and those people and that meeting have the power to can change the thrust of my thinking. Thats why AA meetings are sometimes referred to as the Clinic of Calm.
Great to read your posts. Have a sober 24.
God bless
Lionel
Mirror Mirror on the wall,
Who's the sickest of them all,
Could it be me by any chance,
Oh yes it is, I've wet my pants.
Hi Gina enjoyed your post.
Hi Cailyn .I think one of the reasons AA works is because. We are not all mad on the same day. I can go to a meeting of alcoholics anonymous with a single horseman in my head riding of in 40 different directions(mad) an know I can listen to or talk to someone in the room who is having a good day and those people and that meeting have the power to can change the thrust of my thinking. Thats why AA meetings are sometimes referred to as the Clinic of Calm.
Great to read your posts. Have a sober 24.
God bless
Lionel
Mirror Mirror on the wall,
Who's the sickest of them all,
Could it be me by any chance,
Oh yes it is, I've wet my pants.
