THE TRADITIONS - ONE MEMBER'S SHORT FORM

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bluidkiti
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Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 7:47 am Post subject: THE TRADITIONS - ONE MEMBER'S SHORT FORM



THE TRADITIONS
ONE MEMBER'S SHORT FORM
1. Home groups can be torn apart by gossip, backbiting, and judging of
others. (And where would we be without our home groups?)
2. Rotation gets new people involved so that God can be expressed through
all of us.
3. There is a requirement for AA membership--a desire to stop and stay
stopped drinking. We need to be sharing our experience on the solutions
rather than on the problem.
4. Taking care of our own group business and allowing other groups to do
the same will ensure we continue to be here for the still-suffering
alcoholic.
5. As individuals and as groups our primary purpose is the same, to get and
keep one alcoholic talking with another.
6. Our groups carry the life-saving message of AA to alcoholics and let
others do the same, with our blessing.
7. In AA we pay our way and are not influenced by others.
8. AA is love and service freely received and freely given. We do need to
employ qualified people to keep certain services available and functioning.
9. We need a service structure directly responsible to ourselves.
10. We leave our personal, religious, and political feelings outside AA
doors alone with our worldly ambitions.
11. Very little attraction will show forth if we are promoting ourselves.
Our recovery program is what's important to the public, not us individuals.
12. Striving for the good of AA and the still-suffering alcoholic, with God's
help, is a foundation we can build on. When we stand on our principles, we
leaves personalities behind us.
AAGrapevine, January 96


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AA gives us an opportunity to recreate ourselves, with God's help, one day at a time. --Rufus K.
"No matter what you have done up to this moment, you get 24 brand-new hours to spend every single day." --Brian Tracy
God says that each of us is worth loving.
We stay sober together - one day at a time!