AA Thought for the Day - October 18, 2015

AA Thought for the Day
(courtesy AA-Alive.net)

October 18, 2015

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Service in AA
An AA service is anything whatever that helps us reach a fellow sufferer --
ranging all the way from the Twelfth Step itself to a ten-cent phone call and a cup of coffee,
and to our General Service Office for worldwide AA work.  The sum total of all these is our Third Legacy of Service.
Whether performed by individuals or groups or areas of AA as a whole, these activities are vital to our existence and growth.
- GSR May Be The Most Important Job In AA, pamphlet P-19

Thought to Ponder . . .
Service is gratitude in action.

AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
A B C = Ashtrays, Brooms, Coffee.

A Member Shares:
I'm Maureen, an alcoholic.  I recently got back into a type of service in the district as the General Service Representative for a meeting.  I have done it before in a few different areas and lately it has taken me to a lot of meetings I don't usually go to, which is great.  I am trying to spread the word on a function I am heading up, and went to two different meetings after work, including my old Home Group.  And I also went by two halfway houses to invite them.  So it has been a little incentive to get out of the "comfort zone" of the same old meetings and not so many meetings, to going to more of them.  One of the good service jobs I had in the beginning was making coffee at a Step Meeting.  It was a really nice intimate group in a little country church, and with couches in the basement meeting room … a pretty small group.  And I would be there a half hour before, and half hour after, so got to meet lots of people that way and it was a great meeting.  There are a lot of areas in AA that always need help like taking meetings to jails and treatment centers, as well as all of the other things that every group needs.  It can be a lifeline to sobriety to have a job in your Home Group, because when I "don't feel like going tonight" it can get me there.  Thank you.
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Thanks to all of you for sharing so generously of your experience, strength and hope in carrying the AA message.
Blessings in sobriety to all,
In love and service,
joanna b
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