Category: 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…

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…

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…

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…