Saturday evening December 31,2011 and I am sitting at Central Office with members of my Sunday morning meeting The Garden Variety Group that meets every Sunday morning at Anna’s Restaurant at 9:30. Please feel free to join us for a great meeting and pretty good breakfast. As is normal Doug, our LIFELINE editor, has extended the deadline once again so … Read More
FROM: The Chair in the Corner, December 2011
Greetings to all. Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving and a safe and enjoyable Black Friday. To all of my fans (both of you) I apologize for not writing for the November issue of the LIFELINE. I was very busy trying to secure a paying job with a race team in Las Vegas. Being unsuccessful I decided to take a … Read More
F.E.A.R.
My spirit began to wake up when my desire to stop drinking coupled with a willingness to do whatever it took to accomplish that desire. The process of getting desire and willingness on the same page took years of desperation drinking. On May 12, 1989 I spoke to my first recovering alcoholic. On that day, my wife dropped me off … Read More
7th Tradition Contribution Addresses
Please be sure to add your group name and your contact information (ie. Return address) AA World Services Box 459 Grand Central Station New York, NY 10163 https://ctb.aaws.org/Login.aspx Central Office of Salt Lake City 80 West Louise Ave. Salt Lake City, UT 84115 Area 69 Treasurer PO Box 433 Salt Lake City, UT 84020 http://utah.aa.org/ contributions.php District 2 Treasurer PO … Read More
Does Prayer Work?
I am a man of three score plus 13 years. I have been searching for my understanding of God or a Higher Power all my life and have never been able to truly deep down within my head or heart believe that someone or something is actually pulling the strings on this puppet. As a young boy, my parents never … Read More
Sought through prayer and meditation . . .
Step Eleven provides a strong foundation for spiritual development of our AA program. As it is noted in the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, “The spiritual life is not a theory. We have to live it.” Since prayer and meditation are our principle means of gaining conscious contact with God, these are essential components for living a successful and joyful … Read More
Continued to take personal inventory . . .
There is a passage in the big book that says: “…we have ceased fighting anything or anyone — even alcohol. For by this time sanity will have returned.” This is one of the promises of step ten outlined in the Big Book. The dictionary defines a milestone as: An action or event marking a significant change or stage in development. … Read More