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| 1. | . . . . We Mean to Write One Story. . . (by E. L.) Illinois -- IT has been said that the life of everyone is a diary in which they mean to write one story, but proceed to write another. | January 1953 | |
| 2. | . . .Become as Little Children. (by M. B.) Virginia -- AS a small child I remember quite well that in prayer I learned that my soul would be kept inviolate and that if the unforeseen happened I would have nothing to fear. As a chronic alcoholic it was quite the opposite. | January 1953 | |
| 3. | 1952 - A Bonus Year (by A. W.) Vermont -- 1952 was the year when I opened my heart and thinking apparatus, and let the Spirit take me by the hand. It was a good intention diligently applied, because the year became useful, productive, and I matured with the passing of the days. The percentage of poor days was few, and yet, they were gainfully employed in a productive manner because as day succeeded day, I became more thoroughly engrossed in enjoying my sobriety. All these past hours and thinking have reinforced my perceptions, and have made sturdier the foundation, on which I can now build the Steps. | January 1953 | |
| 4. | 1953--THE YEAR AHEAD AT the stroke of midnight, December 31st, 1952, more than 120,000 members of the fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous exchanged nonalcoholic toasts in forty-two countries that circle the planet Earth. | January 1953 | |
| 5. | A New Year . . . . . . Needs a New Look (by H. H. Q.) Connecticut -- WELL, why not take time out for another personal inventory? First: I am sober and have been for three years, and that is the longest period of sobriety I have enjoyed in forty years, for I am sixty, and for twenty years I thought I handled liquor (although I now know I didn't) and the next twenty years it handled, or rather mauled, me. I am most thankful that AA had brought me this freedom from alcohol. | January 1953 | |
| 6. | A Real Man (by The Golden Gater) A REAL man never talks about what the world owes him, the happiness he deserves, and the chances he ought to have, and all that. All he claims is the right to live and be a man. | January 1953 | |
| 7. | A Sponsor Puts It in Writing (by V.D.S.) N. Car -- DELEGATING myself as your sponsor, I want to give you briefly a little advice, that is based upon about five years' experience in AA and total sobriety after thirteen years as an alcoholic. AA is a deep program, requires a lot of meditation and sincere study. It is something that grows on a person and doesn't usually come like a flash of lightning. That is the reason that AA has the slogans easy does it and first things first. I don't want you to become too enthused and over-confident to begin with because you must remember that your excess drinking did not come on you in two or three weeks; therefore, you cannot expect to find the entire ... | January 1953 | |
| 8. | Easy Does It. . . (by M. M.) Pennsylvania -- AMONG the many things I heard when I first came into AA, was the expression "Easy does it." When I first heard it, I thought it meant "Take it easy." To me, today, there is a big difference. Those three little words, "Easy does it" have a definite significance. They have been the means of a lot of sound thinking and growth. | January 1953 | |
| 9. | Editorial IN the Book of Years there is a new name written. . . . 1953 A.D. And the tens of thousands of unnumbered years before it are as nothing, for it is in this one newcomer year that we must live, one day by one day, Twelve months in which one thought, one feeling, one act can have but one moment of time and then be replaced by new thoughts, new feelings, new deeds and doings. | January 1953 | |
| 10. | From the Grass Roots (by F. E.) Ohio -- BEFORE we set forth on the journey through this New Year let us, as individuals, glance briefly backward over the year just closed. | January 1953 | |
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