Humility Makes Sense
Step Discussion > Step 7: Humbly asked him to remove our shortcomings. December 1966 By: T. P. Jr. | …
Humbly Asked Him
January 1966 “I AM the same person I was when I came into AA.” This statement, made …
A Whole New Me
July 1977 – A.H. from Naples, FL THE BIG BOOK says, “At some of these we balked,” …
The Next Frontier–Emotional Sobriety
I think that many oldsters who have put our AA “booze cure” to severe but successful …
What We Were Like
Fragments of AA History – Origin of the Twelve Steps I well remember the evening on which the …
New Year’s Resolution
On New Year's Eve, an e-mail arrived from my older sister, addressed to the whole family, announcing …
My Greatest Usefulness
BY: GEORGE B. | ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA Tradition Twelve When I first found Alcoholics Anonymous, part …
Tradition Twelve
One may say that anonymity is the spiritual base, the sure key to all the rest of our Traditions. It …
Step Twelve
When I finished my Step work, I knew something was different, but I wasn’t sure if it was a …
Sidebar
BY: TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS – August 1998 Service, gladly rendered, obligations …
Gratitude
BY: ART V. | JOHNS ISLAND, SOUTH CAROLINA – August 2002 Time for one more. . . Every morning …
We Seek Through Meditation
As I slowly made my own way through the Steps, I was aware that I had to understand them fully if I …
Steps to Awareness
BY: T. J. | HOUSTON, TEXAS – July 1981 BEFORE I CAME into AA, I answered to about ten …
Steps to Serenity
I drank for fifteen years, and for the last of those years, there was no question about whether or …
Tradition X
BY: A. D. | GRANDE PRAIRIE, ALBERTA From the November 1957 Grapevine In my opinion, the minute we …
Fellowship
OCTOBER 1947 Do You Yearn for Fellowship? Fellowship Alcoholics long for fellowship. As humiliations …
Safe Passage
By: Bill W. Our fellowship has been permitted to achieve–though still in miniature–the …
Whose Marriage Is It Anyway?
A rocky relationship in recovery I know what it is like to be a total failure as a father. On a cool …
A Step Down
BY: RICK N. | DUBLIN, OHIO | November 2009 November, and colder weather, bring for me a time of …
In My Darkest Hour
FEBRUARY 2020 | TOUGH TIMES BY: CHUCK H. | LAGUNA WOODS, CALIF. The December 2006 issue of Grapevine …
The Twelve Steps Revisited / Step 8
BY: J. E. | GUILFORD, CONNECTICUT – June 1962 (abridged) Made a list of all persons we had …
Say What You Need to Say
When I attended my first AA meeting in June of 2009, I had no idea that my resentments were ruling …
No One’s the Boss
BY: STEVE S. | BLOOMFIELD, N.J. Oh, no! What will these AAs make him do? What does he owe? This …
7th Step
BY: M. U. | BRIGHTON, COLORADO Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings FOR ME, at first …