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Welcome to the
AA Beginners Group
'Maintenance of Our Spiritual Condition'
Period of Prayer & Meditation

'When we retire at night...'

Daily Prayer and Meditation
Schedule

Upon Awakening...
Maintenance Steps 10 & 11
Everyday
6:00 AM (ET)
5:00 AM (CT)
4:00 AM (MT)
3:00 AM (PT)
Click Zoom ID: 840 7751 5662
Password: alcoholic
When We Retire At Night...
Maintenance Steps 10 & 11
Every Night
9:15 PM (ET)
8:15 PM (CT)
7:15 PM (MT)
6:15 PM (PT)
Click Zoom ID: 840 7751 5662
Password: alcoholic


This is a prayer and meditation routine suggested on AA pp. 85-88

During this time we may encounter similar sharing as done in the 5th Step. AA p.74. ...we search our acquaintence for a closed-mouthed, understanding friend. It is important that he (or she) be able to keep a confidence...

If you can offer up your phone # in the chat box for this purpose, please do so. Anyone who needs to share and would like to keep things in confidence, either use the phone numbers provided, send a private chat, text, email, etc...
When people share things openly on this platform, please respect sesitive information.



***Announcement***
Friday thru Monday
A new meeting will begin IN OCTOBER
In this very same room.
You are welcome to attend.
Here are the details:


AA Beginner's
1 Hour Meeting
How To Stop Drinking
Permanently
Take The Steps
Friday 9:00 AM (ET) Steps 1, 2 & 3
Saturday 8:30 AM (ET) Steps 4 & 8
Sunday 8:30 AM (ET) Step 5, 6 & 7
Monday 8:30 AM (ET) Step 9
Click Zoom ID: 840 7751 5662
Password: alcoholic

FRIDAYS
In-Person at Team Wellness
14799 Dix/Toledo Rd,
Southgate, MI 48195


***Announcement***
Sunday thru Wednesday
At 10:00 PM a new meeting will begin
In this very same room.
You are welcome to attend.
Here are the details:


'These Are The Steps We Took...'
Clear-Cut Directions
1 Hour Meeting
Sunday Steps 1, 2 & 3
Monday Steps 4 & 8
Tuesday Step 5, 6 & 7
Wednesday Step 9
10:00 PM (ET)
9:00 PM (CT)
8:00 PM (MT)
7:00 PM (PT)
Click Zoom ID: 840 7751 5662
Password: alcoholic





http://www.aabeginners.com/grouper/retirex.html





Opening Prayer

Heavenly Father,
Help us to grow in understanding and effectiveness. Help us watch for selfishness, dishonesty, resentment, and fear. When these crop up, we ask you at once to remove them. Help us discuss them with someone immediately. Guide us to make amends quickly if we have harmed anyone. How can we best serve You? Your will (not ours) be done. Amen.


This prayer was constructed from the instructions listed in Step Ten (AA p.85).









'When we retire at night we construtively review our day.' (AA p.86)

Were we resentful?


(Please pause for a few seconds to see if someone has anything to openly share.)

For resentments AA p.67: We realized that the people who wronged us were perhaps spiritually sick. Though we did not like their symptoms and the way these disturbed us, they like ourselves, were sick too. We asked God, help us show them the same tolerance, pity, and patience that we would cheerfully grant a sick friend. When a person offended we said to ourselves, This is a sick man. How can I be helpful to him? God, save me from being angry. Thy will be done.

Also AA p.111: The first principle of success is that you should never be angry. Patience and good temper are most necessary.










Were we selfish?


(Please pause for a few seconds to see if someone has anything to openly share.)

For selfishness, The 3rd Step Prayer AA p.63: 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!

Also AA p.128: Giving, rather than getting, will become the guiding principle.












Were we dishonest?


(Please pause for a few seconds to see if someone has anything to openly share.)

For dishonesty AA p.86: God, direct our thinking, especially that it be divorced from self-pity, dishonest or self-seeking motives. Under these conditions we can employ our mental faculties with assurance, for after all God Gave us brains to use. Our thought-life will be placed on a much higher plane when our thinking is cleared of wrong motives.

Also honesty AA p.73: We must be entirely honest with somebody if we expect to live long or happily in this world.














Were we afraid?


(Please pause for a few seconds to see if someone has anything to openly share.)

For fear AA p.68: God, remove our fear and direct our attention to what You would have us be. At once we commence to outgrow fear.

See enemies AA p.145: The greatest enemies of us alcoholics are resentment, jealousy, envy, frustration, and fear.













Do we owe an apology?

(Please pause for a few seconds to see if someone has anything to openly share.)

A remorseful mumbling that we are sorry won't fill the bill at all. (AA p.83)

For amends AA p.76: God, give us the will to go out to our fellows and repair the damage done.

Also AA p.79 (Example of an amends being made in the text.): ...admitting his faults and asking forgiveness... ...and also sent a small amount of money... ...He told her what he would try to do in the future.












Have we kept something to ourselves
which should be discussed with another person at once?

(Please pause for a few seconds to see if someone has anything to openly share.)

For fully disclosing ourselves AA p.29: Our hope is that many alcoholic men and women, desperately in need, will see these pages, and we believe that it is only by fully disclosing ourselves and our problems that they will be persuaded to say, I am one of them too; I must have this thing.

For 5th Step AA p.75: God, have I omitted anything?












Were we kind and loving toward all?

(Please pause for a few seconds to see if someone has anything to openly share.)

For spiritual principles (AA p.83): God, show us the way of patience, tolerance, kindliness and love.

Now we try to put spiritual principles to work in every department of our lives.
When we do that, we find it solves our problems... (AA p.116)













What could we have done better?

(Please pause for a few seconds to see if someone has anything to openly share.)

For what we could have done better (AA p.69):: God, what should we do about each specific matter?

Also AA p.52 When we saw others solve their problems by a simple reliance upon the Spirit of the Universe, we had to stop doubting the power of God.












Were we thinking of ourselves most of the time?

(Please pause for a few seconds to see if someone has anything to openly share.)

For thinking of ourselves, AA p.62 ...are not most of us concerned with ourselves, our resentments, or our self-pity? Selfishness-selfcenteredness! That, we think is the root of our troubles. Driven by a hundred forms of fear, self-delusion, and self-pity, we step on the toes of our fellows and they retaliate.

For self-will (AA p.87):
God, we ask especially for freedom from self-will?












Or were we thinking of what we could do for others,
of what we could pack into the stream of life?

For helping others (AA p.70):
We throw ourselves the harder into helping others. We think of their needs and work for them. This takes us out of ourselves.












But we must be careful not to drift into
worry, remorse or morbid reflection, for that would diminish our usefulness to others.

For usefullness to others (AA p.77):
Our real purpose is to fit ourselves to be of maximum service to God and to the people about us.












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Were we Resentful? (AA p.67):
God, help us show them the same tolerance, pity, and patience that we would cheerfully grant a sick friend. God, save me from being angry. Thy will be done.

Were we Selfish? (AA p.63):
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!

Were we Dishonest? (AA p.86):
God, direct our thinking, especially that it be divorced from self-pity, dishonest or self-seeking motives.

Were we Afraid? (AA p.68):
God, remove our fear and direct our attention to what You would have us be.

Do we owe an apology? (AA p.76):
God, give us the will to go out to our fellows and repair the damage done.

Have we kept something to ourselves
which should be discussed with another person at once? (AA p.75):
God, have I omitted anything?

After making our review...

God, we ask for forgiveness
and inquire what
corrective measures should be taken.



To anyone just now joining us,
we are in quiet time.



TAKE SOME QUIET TIME

(12 minutes)

TO LISTEN TO GOD


 Were we kind and loving toward all? (AA p.83):
God, show us the way of patience, tolerance, kindliness and love.

What could we have done better? (AA p.69):
God, what should we do about each specific matter?

Were we thinking of ourselves most of the time? (AA p.87):
God, we ask especially for freedom from self-will?

Or were we thinking of what we could do for others, of what we could pack into the stream of life? (AA p.70):
We throw ourselves the harder into helping others. We think of their needs and work for them. This takes us out of ourselves.

But we must be careful not to drift into worry, remorse or morbid reflection, for that would diminish our usefulness to others. (AA p.77):
Our real purpose is to fit ourselves to be of maximum service to God and to the people about us.

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Prayer List

Would you like to add any one?
Names will only appear for 1 week
unless otherwise indicated.
* Lori M.
* Alex L.
* Kenny
* Vivian F.
* Tina L.
* Brian G.
* Dawn G.
* Paul V.
* Brea
* Issa
* Christie
* Phil
* Rochelle
* Alexander
* Angel

Heavenly Father...


Please remember all these people as we pray...

(Chairperson's choice of prayer.)

-or-

Our Father...

St Francis

Full Serenity Prayer




Amen


-or-


***


Our Father,
Who art in heaven,
Hallowed by Thy Name,
Thy Kingdom come,
Thy 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.
Lead us not in to temptation,
But deliver us from evil.
For thine is the Kingdom, the Power and the Glory
Forever, AMEN



-or-


***


Lord
Make me an instrument of thy peace;
that where there is hatred, I may bring love;
that where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness;
that where there is discord, I may bring harmony;
that where there is error, I may bring truth;
that where there is doubt, I may bring faith;
that where there is despair, I may bring hope;
that where there are shadows, I may bring light;
that where there is sadness, I may bring joy.
Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort than to be comforted;
to understand, than to be understood;
to love, than to be loved.
For it is by self-forgetting that one finds.
It is by forgiving that one is forgiven.
It is by dying that one awakens to eternal life. Amen



-or-


***


God
Grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time,
enjoying one moment at a time;
accepting hardship as a pathway to peace;
taking, as Jesus did,
this sinful world as it is,
not as I would have it;
trusting that You will make all things right
if I surrender to Your will;
so that I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with You forever in the next.
Amen.

















Is there anything you would like to share
from your quiet time with God

-or-

Anything you are grateful for?















We resolutely turn our thoughts
to someone we can help.


Love and tolerance of others is our code.






Schedules




Daily Prayer & Meditation Schedule

To anyone who would like to lead the period prayer and meditation in the future simply mention it now...

Upon awakening... 09/13/26 Sunday 6:00 AM ET Frank E.
When we retire at night... 09/13/26 Sunday 9:15 PM ET Frank E.
Upon awakening... 09/14/26 Monday 6:00 AM ET Dave C.
When we retire at night... 09/14/26 Monday 9:15 PM ET Dave C.
Upon awakening... 09/15/26 Tuesday 6:00 AM ET Sharonn J.
When we retire at night... 09/15/26 Tuesday 9:15 PM ET Kevin M.
Upon awakening... 09/16/26 Wednesday 6:00 AM ET Jim C.
When we retire at night... 09/16/26 Wednesday 9:15 PM ET Dave C.
Upon awakening... 09/17/26 Thursday 6:00 AM ET Sharonn J.
When we retire at night... 09/17/26 Thursday 9:15 PM ET Sharonn J.
Upon awakening... 09/18/26 Friday 6:00 AM ET Frank E.
When we retire at night... 09/18/26 Friday 9:15 PM ET Claire T.
Upon awakening... 09/19/26 Saturday 6:00 AM ET Sharonn J.
When we retire at night... 09/19/26 Saturday 9:15 PM ET Oscar M.








12 Step Workshops


Getting involved in 12 Step Workshops is definitely intensive work with others, especially alcoholics, and this helps insure immunity from drinking. If you would like to lead a upcoming (open) workshop, simply mention it at this time...

1st Saturday of the Month 09/05/26 11:00 AM ET Sharonn J.
1st Saturday of the Month 09/05/26 1:00 PM ET Charles W.
1st Sunday of the Month 09/06/26 11:00 AM ET Brendan D.

2nd Saturday of the Month 09/12/26 11:00 AM ET Dave M.
2nd Saturday of the Month 09/12/26 1:00 PM ET Charles W.
2nd Sunday of the Month 09/13/26 11:00 AM ET Sharonn J.

3rd Saturday of the Month 09/19/26 11:00 AM ET Sharonn J.
3rd Saturday of the Month 09/19/26 1:00 PM ET Charles W.
3rd Sunday of the Month 09/20/26 11:00 AM ET Dave M.

4th Saturday of the Month 09/26/26 11:00 AM ET (open) Dave C.
4th Saturday of the Month 09/26/26 1:00 PM ET Charles W.
4th Sunday of the Month 09/27/26 11:00 AM ET Dave C.



Thanks to everyone for your service.