How We Do It - From the "Group-vine

Our Groups, as so very many others, end their formal meetings by saying the "Our Father" or "Lord's Prayer," either aloud or to themselves. There are obvious reasons for so doing; one is that the opening words remind us that we aspire to be a family. But brothers and sisters can and do often jar on each others' nerves; and it may be that unconsciously some of us, quite probably the writer most of all, offend against each other. None of us would wish to be the unwitting cause or the rationalization of another member's decision to leave AA or to discontinue his attendance at meetings. Yet it is possible that we may have contributed to it through our thoughtlessness.