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AA Beginners Group 'Learn How To Stop Drinking' Meeting I am pasting this Meeting Agenda http://www.aabeginners.com/grouper/agenda.html into the chat box right now. My last drink was on ____________. Join me in a moment of silence for those who are affected with alcoholism...
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AA 1st Ed p.30, 2nd, 3rd & 4th Ed p.20 We have recovered from a hopeless condition of mind and body. If you are an alcoholic who wants to get over it, you may already be asking - What do I have to do? It is the purpose of this book to answer such questions specifically. Step 1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol - that our lives had become unmanageable. AA 1st Ed p.34, 2nd, 3rd & 4th Ed p.24 The fact is that most alcoholics, for reasons yet obscure, have lost the power of choice in drink. Our so-called will power becomes practically nonexistent. We are unable, at certain times, to bring into our consciousness with sufficient force the memory of the suffering and humiliation of even a week or a month ago. We are without defense against the first drink. AA 1st Ed p.45-46, 2nd, 3rd & 4th Ed p.34 This is the baffling feature of alcoholism as we know it, this inability to leave it alone, no matter how great the necessity or the wish. AA 1st Ed p.41, 2nd, 3rd & 4th Ed p.30 We learned that we had to fully concede to our innermost selves that we were alcoholics. This is the first step in recovery. We alcoholics are men and women who have lost the ability to control our drinking. We know that no real alcoholic ever recovers control. AA 1st Ed p.56, 2nd, 3rd & 4th Ed p.44 If, when you honestly want to, you find you cannot quit entirely, or if when drinking, you have little control over the amount you take, you are probably alcoholic. If that be the case, you may be suffering from an illness which only a spiritual experience will conquer. AA 1st Ed p.57, 2nd, 3rd & 4th Ed p.45 Lack of power, that was our dilemma. We had to find a power by which we could live, and it had to be a Power greater than ourselves. Obviously. But where and how were we to find this Power? Well, thats exactly what this book is about. Its main object is to enable you to find a Power greater than yourself which will solve your problem. AA 1st Ed p.21-22, 2nd, 3rd & 4th Ed p.12 My friend suggested what then seemed a novel idea. He said, Why don't you choose your own conception of God? It was only a matter of being willing to believe in a Power greater than myself. Nothing more was required of me to make my beginning. AA 1st Ed p.71, 2nd, 3rd & 4th Ed p.59 But there is One who has all power, that One is God. May you find him now! |
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AA 1st Ed p.6, 2nd, 3rd & 4th Ed p.xxv (The Doctor's Opinion) ...the phenomenon of craving at once became paramount to all other interests so that the important appointment was not met. These men were not drinking to escape, they were drinking to overcome a craving beyond their mental control. AA 1st Ed p.46, 2nd, 3rd & 4th Ed p.35 So we shall describe some of the mental states that precede a relapse into drinking, for obviously this is the crux of the problem. AA 1st Ed p.48, 2nd, 3rd & 4th Ed p.37 But there was always the curious mental phenomenon that parallel with our sound reasoning there inevitably ran some insanely trivial excuse for taking the first drink. Our sound reasoning failed to hold us in check. How do we get past this? AA 1st Ed p.55, 2nd, 3rd & 4th Ed p. 43 The alcoholic at certain times has no effective mental defense against the first drink. Except in few rare cases, neither he nor any other human being can provide such a defense. His defense must come from a Higher Power. AA 1st Ed p.72, 2nd, 3rd & 4th Ed p.60 (a) That we were alcoholic and could not manage our own lives. (step 1) (b) That probably no human power could have relieved our alcoholism. (step 2) (c) That God could and would if He were sought. (step 2) AA 1st Ed p.69, 2nd, 3rd & 4th Ed p.57 Even so has God restored us all to our right minds. Some of us grow into it more slowly. But He has come to all who have honestly sought Him. When we drew near to Him He disclosed Himself to us! AA 1st Ed p.54, 2nd, 3rd & 4th Ed p.42 Quite as important was the discovery that spiritual principles would solve all my problems. |
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over to the care of God as we understood him. AA 1st Ed p.72, 2nd, 3rd & 4th Ed p.60 The first requirement is that we be convinced that any life run on self-will can hardly be a success. AA 1st Ed p.74-75, 2nd, 3rd & 4th Ed p.62 Selfishness - self-centeredness! That, we think, is the root of our troubles. Driven by a hundred forms of
This is the how and the why of it. First of all, we had to quit playing God. It didn't work. AA 1st Ed p.75, 2nd, 3rd & 4th Ed p.63 We decided that hereafter in this drama of life, God was going to be our Director.
When we sincerely take such a position, all sorts of remarkable things follow.
We thought well before taking this step making sure that we were ready; that we could abandon ourselves utterly to Him. You can join us in the 3rd Step Prayer now. God, I offer myself to Thee, to build with me and do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy Power, Thy Love, and Thy Way of Life. May I do Thy will always! |
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For the benefit of the newer people here today, Can you answer the following questions?
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If you would like a recovered member to help you with the 12 Steps,
Join us for one of the Zoom workshops listed below.
(We go through All 12 Steps)..
12 Step Workshop Schedule
Sunday 11:00 AM EST
AA Beginners Sponsorship Workshop ALL 12 STEPS
6 HOURS Duration
Zoom Id: 87577128870
Password: alcoholic
Saturday 1:00 PM EST
AA Beginners Sponsorship Workshop ALL 12 STEPS
6 HOURS Duration
Zoom Id: 838 6419 2971
Password: alcoholic
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Click on: ABOUT
Click on: What Is AA?
Thank everyone for attending todays meeting.
We close with a Prayer.
10th and 11th Step Prayer
Heavenly Father,
When selfishness, dishonesty, resentment and fear crop up in our lives,
please remove them. Divorce our minds from this type of thinking.
We ask for forgiveness and inquire what corrective measures we should take.
We ask for inpiration, intuitive thoughts or decisions based on Your will.
All through the day, show us what our next step is to be.
Give us what we need to take care of our problems.
Grant us the right thoughts and the right actions.
Thy Will be done.
Amen
3rd Step Prayer
God, I offer myself to Thee, to build with me and do with me as Thou wilt.
Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will.
Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help
of Thy Power, Thy Love, and Thy Way of Life.
May I do Thy will always!
7th Step Prayer
My Creator, I am now willing that you should have all of me, good and bad.
I pray that you now remove from me every single defect of character which stands in the way of my usefulness
to you and my fellows. Grant me strength, as I go out from here, to do your bidding. Amen.
Our Father, who is in Heaven, Holy is Your Name.
Your Kingdom come. Your will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread
and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.
Don't let us fall into temptation and deliver us from evil.
Yours is the Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory Forever,
AMEN.