AA Thought for the Day - August 23, 2015

AA Thought for the Day
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August 23, 2015

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Tradition Five
Each group has but one primary purpose -- to carry its message to the alcoholic who still suffers.
- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 150

Thought to Ponder . . .
Our primary purpose is to stay sober and help other alcoholics to achieve sobriety.

AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
T R U S T = Teaching Recoveryl Using Steps and Traditions.

A Member Shares:
Hi, I'm Dale, and I am an alcoholic.  I look at the history of AA.  Ebby T. brought some spiritual principles to the door of Bill W. one day in November, 1934.  Bill got sober and stayed sober; Ebby had a few problems with sobriety.  Among the reasons Bill stayed sober were lessons learned from another temperance group.  There were lessons about anonymity and a primary purpose.  The Washingtonians worked, but they foundered and got mired in a hundred different projects.  The same almost happened to AA, but Bill wrote a series of articles for the Grapevine which eventually were adopted as our Traditions.  Because if those Traditions, in particular #5, I can go to a meeting today and talk about recovery from a disease that wants to kill me.  I learned early on from some old timers about how important it is to adhere to those principles.  Sure, I have other issues, lots of them, but I don't bring them to a meeting.  I can still use the Steps and Traditions on them and work out most of my problems.  But my focus here, or in any AA meeting is sobriety.  Without it, I am nothing.  Thanks for listening.
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Blessings in sobriety to all,
In love and service,
joanna b
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