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Below is the full text of the original Serenity Prayer, a profound meditation on humility, endurance, and surrender. Compared to the abbreviated version recited in meetings, how does this fuller text deepen and enrich your understanding of it? Prayer For Serenity God, grant me serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change…

Alcohol is cunning, bafflingand powerful. It will remove stains from clothes.It will also remove the clothes off your back.If it is used in sufficient quantity,Alcohol will remove furniture from the home,Rugs from the floor, food from the table,Lining from the stomach, vision from the eyesAnd judgment from the mind.Alcohol will remove good reputations,Good jobs, good…

To answer this question, ask yourself the following questions and answer them as honestly as you can. Number Question Yes No 1 Do you lose time from work due to drinking? 2 Is drinking making your home life unhappy? 3 Do you drink because you are shy with other people? 4 Is drinking affecting your…

The AA 12 Concepts for World Service can be thought of as the “Government Bylaws” for the entire global organization of Alcoholics Anonymous. While the 12 Steps are for personal recovery (how to get sober) and the 12 Traditions are for local groups (how to keep a meeting running), the 12 Concepts explain how the…

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…