Welcome to the Daily Reprieve

Group Sunday, 7 am.

Promises Associated with
working the 12 Steps Meeting
What we really have is a daily
reprieve contingent on the
maintenance of our spiritual
condition.
BB P.85
 GOD GRANT US THE
SERENITY
TO ACCEPT THE THINGS WE CANNOT CHANGE
COURAGE
TO CHANGE THE THINGS WE CAN &
WISDOM
TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE

THY WILL NOT OURS BE DONE

 Closed Meeting
Statement
This is a closed meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous. In
support of A.A’s singleness of purpose, attendance at closed
meetings is limited to persons who have a desire to stop
drinking. If you think you have a problem with alcohol, you
are welcome to attend this meeting. We ask that when
discussing our problems, we confine ourselves to those
problems as they relate to alcoholism.
 A.A. Preamble
Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of people who share
their experience, strength and hope with each other that
they may solve their common problem and help others to
recover from alcoholism. The only requirement for
membership is a desire to stop drinking. There are no dues
or fees for A.A. membership; we are self supporting through
our own contributions. A.A. is not allied with any sect,
denomination, politics, organization or institution; does not
wish to engage in any controversy, neither endorses nor
opposes any causes. Our primary purpose is to stay sober
and help other alcoholics to achieve sobriety.
 Introductions
Let’s go around and introduce ourselves and say where we
are calling from and what we are grateful for today. I’ll call
on each of you. If there is anyone new to this meeting or
with fewer than 30 days of sobriety, welcome, and please let
us know. This is not to embarrass you but so we can get to
know you better. Also, if you are celebrating a milestone
please let us know, we’d like to celebrate with you.
 How it Works Big Book: Chapter 5, pg. 58-60
Rarely have we seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed our path. Those who
do not recover are people who cannot or will not completely give themselves to this simple
program, usually men and women who are constitutionally incapable of being honest with
themselves. There are such unfortunates. They are not at fault; they seem to have been
born that way. They are naturally incapable of grasping and developing a manner of living
which demands rigorous honesty. Their chances are less than average. There are those, too,
who suffer from grave emotional and mental disorders, but many of them do recover if they
have the capacity to be honest.
Our stories disclose in a general way what we used to be like, what happened, and
what we are like now. If you have decided you want what we have and are willing to go to
any length to get it — then you are ready to take certain steps.
At some of these we balked. We thought we could find an easier, softer way. But we
could not. With all the earnestness at our command, we beg of you to be fearless and
thorough from the very start. Some of us have tried to hold on to our old ideas and the
result was nil until we let go absolutely.
Remember that we deal with alcohol — cunning, baffling, powerful! Without help it
is too much for us. But there is One who has all power — that One is God. May you find Him
now!
Half measures availed us nothing. We stood at the turning point. We asked His
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 to another human being the exact nature of our
wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to
them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would
injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted
it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as
we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry
Many of us exclaimed, “What an order! I can’t go through with
it.’’ Do not be discouraged. No one among us has been able to
maintain anything like perfect adherence to these principles. We
are not saints. The point is, that we are willing to grow along
spiritual lines. The principles we have set down are guides to
progress. We claim spiritual progress rather than spiritual
perfection.
Our description of the alcoholic, the chapter to the agnostic, and
our personal adventures before and after make clear three
pertinent ideas:
(a) That we were alcoholic and could not manage our own lives.
(b) That probably no human power could have relieved our
alcoholism.
(c) That God could and would if He were sought.
 The A.A. 12 Traditions
1. Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon A.A. unity.
2. For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority — a loving God as He may express
Himself in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern.
3. The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop drinking.
4. Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or A.A. as a whole.
5. Each group has but one primary purpose — to carry its message to the alcoholic who still suffers.
6. An A.A. group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the A.A. name to any related facility or outside
enterprise, lest problems of money, property, and prestige divert us from our primary purpose.
7. Every A.A. group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.
8. Alcoholics Anonymous should remain forever non-professional, but our service centers may employ
special workers.
9. A.A., as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service boards or committees directly
responsible to those they serve.
10. Alcoholics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the A.A. name ought never be
drawn into public controversy.
11. Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain
personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, and films.
12. Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles
before personalities.
Is there anyone with a burning desire to
share?

A burning desire could be a craving or obsession to pick up a drink or if you are

thinking or feeling like harming yourself or another person or if your feelings or
thoughts are burdening you this morning…please share.
Promises Associated with working the 12
Steps
The promises associated with Bill W’s Story:(2-3): Reading Big Book Page 11

To Christ I conceded the certainty of a great man, not too closely followed by those who claimed Him. His moral teaching—
most excellent. For myself, I had adopted those parts which seemed convenient and not too difficult; the rest I disregarded.
The wars which had been fought, the burnings and chicanery that religious dispute had facilitated, made me sick. I honestly
doubted whether, on balance, the religions of mankind had done any good. Judging from what I had seen in Europe and
since, the power of God in human affairs was negligible, the Brotherhood of Man a grim jest. If there was a Devil, he
seemed the Boss Universal, and he certainly had me.
But my friend sat before me, and he made the pointblank declaration that 2God had done for him what he could not do for
himself. His human will had failed. Doctors had pronounced him incurable. Society was about to lock him up. Like myself, he
had admitted complete defeat. 3Then he had, in effect, been raised from the dead, suddenly taken from the scrap heap to
a level of life better than the best he had ever known!
Had this power originated in him? Obviously it had not. There had been no more power in him than there was in me at that
minute; and this was none at all.
That floored me. It began to look as though religious people were right after all. Here was something at work in a human
heart which had done the impossible.
My ideas about miracles were drastically revised right then. Never mind the musty past; here sat a miracle directly across
the kitchen table. He shouted great tidings.
I saw that my friend was much more than inwardly reorganized. He was on a different footing. His roots grasped a new soil.
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 Sponsorship

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please type your contacts in the Chat. If you are looking for a
Sponsor, please contact one of these people after the meeting.
◦You can also contact me, and I can connect you to a list of sponsors
 9 Step Promises
th
Big book: Chapter 6, pg. 83-84
If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before
we are half way through.
We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness.
We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it.
We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace.
No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can
benefit others.
That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear.
We will lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in our fellows.
Self-seeking will slip away.
Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change.
Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us.
We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us.
We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for Ourselves.
Are these extravagant promises? We think not. They are being fulfilled among us
sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. They will always materialize if we work for them.
 A Vision for You
Our book is meant to be suggestive only. We realize we know only a
little. God will constantly disclose more to you and to us. Ask Him in
your morning meditation what you can do each day for the man who
is still sick. The answers will come, if your own house is in order.
But obviously you cannot transmit something you haven’t got. See to
it that your relationship with Him is right, and great events will
come to pass for you and countless others. This is the Great Fact for
us. Abandon yourself to God as you understand God. Admit your
faults to Him and to your fellows. Clear away the wreckage of your
past. Give freely of what you find and join us. We shall be with you in
the fellowship of the Spirit, and you will surely meet some of us as
you trudge the Road of Happy Destiny. May God bless you and keep
you—until then.
 AA Responsibility Statement

“I am responsible – when anyone, anywhere reaches out

for help, I want the hand of AA always to be there, and for
that: I am responsible,”
 Closing Remarks
◦In keeping with our
singleness of purpose,
anonymity is the spiritual
foundation of all our
traditions, ever reminding
us to place principles
before personalities.
 GOD GRANT US THE
SERENITY
TO ACCEPT THE THINGS WE CANNOT CHANGE
COURAGE
TO CHANGE THE THINGS WE CAN &
WISDOM
TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE

THY WILL NOT OURS BE DONE

 Safety Card for A.A. Groups
Tradition Five states: Each group has but one primary purpose — to carry its
message to the alcoholic who still suffers.
Any person seeking help with a drinking problem is welcome at this group. No
A.A. entity determines an individual’s membership in Alcoholics Anonymous. It
is this group’s con- science that if any person endangers another individual or
disrupts the group’s efforts to carry A.A.’s message, the group may ask that
person to leave the meeting.
This group strives to safeguard the anonymity of A.A. members and attendees;
however, keep in mind that anonymity in A.A. is not a cloak for unsafe and
illegal behavior. Addressing such behavior and/or contacting the proper
authorities when appropriate, does not go against any A.A. Traditions and is
meant to ensure the safety of all in attendance.
The short form of Tradition One states: “Our common welfare should come
first; personal recovery depends upon A.A. unity.” Recognizing the importance
of group unity, our group strives to create a safe meeting environment in
which alcoholics can focus on achieving sobriety.