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| 1. | The Time Is Now (by D. W. R.) Michigan -- AROUND THE TABLES, I have heard repeatedly about tomorrow's fears and yesterday's guilt, with a number of admonitions about living one day at a time. It has come to me that my brethren who experience difficulties in living one day at a time have missed an extremely important point, namely: that you don't live one day once upon a time. | August 1972 | |
| 2. | The Pain of In-between (by D. W. R.) Michigan -- AROUND THE TABLES, I have expressed the thought that I don't need to die to know the anguish of hell. It was my residence for twenty-five years right here on earth. I talk about the heaven that I now know from 24-hour living in AA--my "Garden of Eden." Others have agreed with me that surely no inferno could be worse than the wet years and that heaven must be this beautiful life we have. | September 1972 | |
| 3. | The Accidents That Don't Just Happen (by D. W. R.) Michigan -- "You know what our genius for rationalization is. If, to ourselves, we fully justify one slip, then our rationalizing propensities are almost sure to justify another one, perhaps with a different set of excuses. But one justification leads to another and presently we are back on the bottle full-time." | October 1972 | |
| 4. | The True Christmas That Changed Me (by D. W. R.) Michigan -- AROUND THE TABLES, the blessings flow, and continue to flow after the meeting. On a simply magnificent Sunday in June, as I drove through the deserted inner city to an old parish church for a breakfast gathering of the Fellowship, my thoughts were on Christmas. Whatever that day means to you--a commercial flurry, a pagan custom, the birth of a particular Messenger--it is a certainty that Christmas has a personal significance for most AAs. | December 1972 | |
| 5. | Around the Tables. . . (by D. W. R.) Michigan -- AROUND THE TABLES, over a period of many 24 hours, I have experienced many versions of the Eighth and Ninth Steps of the AA guide to recovery. As the chemical fog lifted, I endeavored to cope with the havoc caused by my insanity. One particular problem persisted: While I had made financial restitution, I couldn't grasp an approach toward the emotional amends which I felt necessary. | January 1973 | |
| 6. | The Prodigal Son (by D. W. R.) Michigan -- AROUND THE TABLES, I wondered how I was going to make it. What they had seemed so impossible to achieve. Yet I have obtained a lot of what they had, and I can truly see that, by following their path, there is much, much more to be gained. | February 1973 | |
| 7. | Freedom (by D. W. R.) Michigan -- AROUND THE TABLES, I find youth, zest, imagination, awareness, true friendships, and countless glad tidings of life in its most joyous surroundings--one day at a time. Thanks to the AA program, I recently spent, not a four-martini, wine-and-stingers lunch afternoon, but a shorter, happier hour. I enjoyed a stand-up corned beef on onion roll, a super-big-scoop chocolate-chip cone, and some browsing in the bookstore, where I bought a copy of A. A. Milne's When We Were Very Young for D. W. R. Jr. Skimming through the book (for Jr.'s benefit, of course), I was struck by the short verse titled "Independence": | March 1973 | |
| 8. | Cling to AA (by D. W. R.) Michigan -- AROUND THE TABLES, there is an abundance of proof of our saying "If you make a call to AA, you belong." I am a newcomer in more ways than one, but it is absolutely amazing how often now I have more 24 hours than most others at our meetings. How can this be? In a nutshell--the grace of God, and that alone. | April 1973 | |
| 9. | Gratitude (by D. W. R.) Michigan -- AROUND THE TABLES, the wonderments of AA spill forth, only to be surpassed by more wonderments. This morning, when I was thinking of what I owe to each of you, I realized that words fail to express the abiding gratitude I have to you. Prayers of others led me to AA, which led me to God, who led me right back to AA, which led back to prayers. Only you, each of you, by attempting to find your own solution, could have done it for me. If some of you hadn't, who would have been there to help me? Those of you whose last drink was after my last drink have helped me by letting me help you. Those ... | May 1973 | |
| 10. | Nobody Knew AROUND THE TABLES, thank God, each can be himself. That means a fantastic freedom, but one built on the recognition of the inherent freedom of others. | June 1973 | |
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