If you want to have a sober holiday, come visit us at Fremont Fellowship Hall at 90th & Aurora Avenue North. We will be having round the clock meetings throughout Christmas and New Years. We will also serve a Christmas Dinner with Turkey, Stuffing, and All the Other Fixings. This will be a potluck also.
Check out the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous online at http://www.aa.org/bigbookonline/
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Monday, December 8, 2008
What About the New People?
Yes, many of us have got sober and stayed sober by coming to Fremont, attending meetings regularly (or almost addictively for that matter), and not really cracking into the 'program' of AA as outlined in the book.
I have heard that some of the old-timers around the room have taken years of sitting in meetings and just being 'dry' before trying the AA program.
I wonder what Bill Wilson and Bob Smith would say if they attended a meeting at Fremont and listened to the cracker jacks that harp on about 'Doing it Their Own Way', and not needing any book!
What kind of message is getting sent to the newcomers?
With alcoholism, drug addiction, sex addiction, gambling problems, broken families, and other massively dysfunctional behaviors at a peak, it would seem better to step up the heat of passing on the 'un watered down' message of the original AA, wouldn't it?
I have heard that some of the old-timers around the room have taken years of sitting in meetings and just being 'dry' before trying the AA program.
I wonder what Bill Wilson and Bob Smith would say if they attended a meeting at Fremont and listened to the cracker jacks that harp on about 'Doing it Their Own Way', and not needing any book!
What kind of message is getting sent to the newcomers?
With alcoholism, drug addiction, sex addiction, gambling problems, broken families, and other massively dysfunctional behaviors at a peak, it would seem better to step up the heat of passing on the 'un watered down' message of the original AA, wouldn't it?
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