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HERO: 2025 Janyary GV issue
January 2025

Spirituality and Prayer

This month’s featured section is “Spirituality and Prayer,” with powerful stories by members about their journeys with finding a Higher Power and the many ways they use prayer.

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“Sponsorship is a bridge to trusting the human race, the very race we once resigned from. In learning to trust, we are strengthening our sobriety.”

“A Means to a Beginning,” Grand Island, Nebraska, February 1984, One On One: AA Sponsorship in Action

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My First Spiritual Experience

I hear a lot of people struggle with Step Three. I struggled with it as well. When I got to the end of the ABCs in “How It Works” in our Big Book, I realized I was ready for the Third Step.

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Hope Arrived

Earlier in the day, Chris cleared the snow off the minivan. He still takes care of me, even though he is so angry that he won’t even look at me.

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That I May Bring Light

I’m an agnostic, so I’m not usually drawn to prayers or praying. One exception is the Prayer of St. Francis, or the Eleventh Step Prayer, as AAs have come to call it.

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Sunshine & Rainbows

Only weeks sober and new to a meeting that would become my home group, I was stressed and full of fear.

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The Man at the Pier

As I pulled up to the parking lot by the pier on Mexico Beach, the rain had turned into a mist. I got out of the car and noticed how quiet and abandoned the place seemed.

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Starting Over

When I was new to the AA program, I did everything that was suggested. I read the Big Book, chose a home group, started working the Steps and got a sponsor.

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Grapevine Daily Quote January 14

“Sponsorship is a bridge to trusting the human race, the very race we once resigned from. In learning to trust, we are strengthening our sobriety.”

“A Means to a Beginning,” Grand Island, Nebraska, February 1984, One On One: AA Sponsorship in Action

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