February 2018 | Title Goes Here

Through the grief

With service, literature, a good sponsor and lots of prayer, a new father doesn’t drink when tragedy strikes his family

Before coming to AA, my “life skills” consisted of knowing how to order a hamburger and a beer. But through our wonderful Fellowship, I learned how to stay employed without quitting (I used to fire myself before they fired me) and how to court women on dates (as opposed to having numerous judicial court dates). In fact, my sponsor always reminded me that it’s “one date at a time.”

WANT TO CONTINUE READING?

You must have an active online AA Grapevine subscription to access full stories and audio.

Login Renew Subscribe

Need help with customer service?

Call 800 631-6025 (English), 800 640-8781 (Spanish), 212-870-3456 (French) or email: [email protected]
or [email protected]

Have Something You Want To Share?

We want to hear your story! Submit your story and it could be published in a future issue of AA Grapevine!

Submit your Story