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Open Up!

February 2022 | Getting Through Tough Times
What? No meeting today? He was new and now desperate—but he wasn’t alone

10 years of love

February 2022 | Getting Through Tough Times
Sponsoring someone takes on a posturing of offering and accepting. How fortunate it is that AA gives us these relationships to ensure that we’re never alone.

No words needed

February 2022 | Getting Through Tough Times
On the road to clean up the past with his sons, he recalls one night that especially stands out

My prayer was answered

February 2022 | Getting Through Tough Times
I would say out loud in meetings that, “God let me down. I went to church and was praying to stop drinking and now I’m stuck here in AA.” Finally a guy cross-talked me.

Liquid gratitude

February 2022 | Getting Through Tough Times
Sometimes we don’t need to understand or explain our belief in a Higher Power—we just feel it

Something to see

February 2022 | Getting Through Tough Times
Though her husband’s illness came at a most difficult time, the love of the Fellowship came through everyone

We can get through anything

February 2022 | Getting Through Tough Times
He’s gotten through moves, loved one’s deaths, viral meningitis and age issues, and he hasn’t had a drink since 1970

Sweet rescue

February 2022 | Getting Through Tough Times
Lockdown isolation led to depression, then finally to an ice-cold beer, but it was something red and tasty that saved him

Wrapped in Fellowship

February 2022 | Getting Through Tough Times
Being a sober AA member doesn’t mean I will have a life free of trials and tribulations, but what it does give me is a Fellowship I can rely on.

The long road back

February 2022 | Getting Through Tough Times
Thanks to prayer, fellowship and a good sponsor, she held onto her sanity through a long, serious work injury

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