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Always worthy of consideration, any day, any time, imho.
From Silkworth.net;
Tradition Seven: Every AA group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.
Honestly now, do I do all I can to help AA (my group, my central office, my GSO) remain self-supporting? Could I put a little more into the basket on behalf of the new […]
As usual, the same as last year, always worthy of consideration, any day, any time, imho.
From Silkworth.net;
Tradition Six: An AA group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the AA name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property, and prestige divert us from our primary purpose.
Should my fellow group members and […]
Always worthy of consideration, any day, any time, imho.
From Silkworth.net;
Tradition Five: Each group has but one primary purpose – to carry its message to the alcoholic who still suffers.
Do I ever cop out by saying, “I’m not a group, so this or that Tradition doesn’t apply to me?”
Am I willing to explain firmly to a […]
From the The Traditions Checklist ;
Traditions Checklist - Tradition One: Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon AA unity.
1. Am I in my group a healing, mending, integrating person, or am I divisive? What about gossip and taking other members’ inventories?
2. Am I a peacemaker? Or do I, with pious preludes such […]
From The Language of the Heart: Bill W’s Grapevine Writings page 93;
“In each Tradition, the individual or the group is asked to give up something for our general welfare.”
Tradition Six points at the corroding influence of money, property, and personal authority; it begs that we keep these influences at a minimum by separate incorporation and […]
From The Language of the Heart: Bill W’s Grapevine Writings page 93;
A glance at the Twelve Traditions will instantly assure anyone that ‘giving up’ is the essential idea of them all. In each Tradition, the individual or the group is asked to give up something for our general welfare.
Tradition One asks us to place the […]
As usual, always worthy of consideration, any day, any time, imho.
From Silkworth.net;
Tradition Twelve: Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our Traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.
Why is it a good idea for me to place the common welfare of all AA members before individual welfare? What would happen to me if […]
As usual, always worthy of consideration, any day, any time, imho.
From Silkworth.net;
Tradition Ten: Alcoholics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the AA name ought never be drawn into public controversy.
Do I ever give the impression that there really is an “AA opinion” on Antabuse? Tranquilizers? Doctors? Psychiatrists? Churches? Hospitals? Jails? Alcohol? The federal […]
Tradition Nine: “A.A., as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service boards directly responsible to those they serve.”
Paraphrasing the 12&12, page 173;
Not even the “humblest group committee can issue a single directive to an A.A. member and make it stick, let alone mete out any punishment.”
Hmmm - I wonder how that applies […]
As usual, always worthy of consideration, any day, any time, imho.
From Silkworth.net;
Tradition Nine: AA, as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.
Do I still try to boss things in AA?
Do I resist formal aspects of AA because I fear them as authoritative?
Am I […]
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