July 2021
Special SectionThis month’s Featured Section is “Annual Prison Issue.” AA members inside and out of prison walls share powerful stories about getting sober and helping one another. Also included are stories of hope by members during the current COVID-19 crisis.
Striking Gold
For about three years I’ve been leading an AA meeting inside a medium security prison about 35 miles from my home.
Grateful to Help
Thanks to some of my fellow AA corrections volunteers, I was introduced to taking meetings into jails and prisons in early sobriety.
Courage to Trust
I’ve been an alcoholic since I was 12. I can still vividly remember that first time a beer tasted good. I was transformed from a scared and desperate little boy to a man in charge.
Just in time
I am serving a life sentence here in this prison. I shared my story once before in the June 2015 prison issue of Grapevine.
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Grapevine Daily Quote June 23
“Older AAs who know the record are unanimous in their feeling that an intelligence greater than ours has surely been at work, else we could never have avoided so many pitfalls, could never have been so happily related to our millions of friends in the outside world.”
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