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12 Steps and 12 Traditions of AA
These are the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous 1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol — that our lives had become unmanageable. 2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. 3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him. 4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. 5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and…
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“Alcoholics Anonymous” by Jack Alexander, The Saturday Evening Post
Editor’s note: AA had its beginnings in 1935 when a doctor and a layman, both alcoholics, helped each other recover and then developed, with a third recovering alcoholic, the organization’s guiding principles. By 1941, the group had demonstrated greater success in helping alcoholics than any previous methods and had grown to about 2,000 members. But for most of North America, AA was still unknown. Following the March 1, 1941, publication of an article in The…
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Alcoholics and God
Written by Morris Markey. Edited by Fulton Oursler of Liberty magazine. Is there hope for habitual drunkards?A cure that borders on the miraculous–and it works! For twenty-five or thirty cents we buy a glass of fluid which is pleasant to the taste, and which contains within its small measure a store of warmth and good-fellowship and stimulation, of release from momentary cares and anxieties. That would be a drink of whisky, of course — whisky,…
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I Stand By The Door
by Reverend Sam Shoemaker I stand by the door.I neither go to far in, nor stay to far out.The door is the most important door in the world –It is the door through which men walk when they find God.There is no use my going way inside and staying there,When so many are still outside and they, as much as I,Crave to know where the door is.And all that so many ever findIs only the…
Why we do this:
We have the joy of living, even under pressure and difficulty. We have seen hundreds of families set their feet in the path that really goes somewhere; have seen the most impossible domestic situations righted; feuds and bitterness of all sorts wiped out. We have seen men come out of asylums and resume a vital place in the lives of their families and communities. Business and professional men have regained their standing. There is scarcely any form of trouble and misery which has not been overcome among us. We meet frequently so that newcomers may find the fellowship they seek.