P.S. From the Editor

"To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven." These lovely words at the beginning of Chapter Three in Ecclesiastes have always seemed to me to be particularly meaningful to our AA journey. Indeed the whole chapter carries a vivid reminder of the deeper meaning of our Slogans and our beloved Serenity Prayer which appears each April on our Easter Grapevine. At no time does it seem more pertinent to me to reaffirm, "a time to be born and a time to die; a time to plant and a time to pluck up that which is planted," than in this month of attention to rebirth as symbolized by the Easter season. Each of us in AA carries our own affirmation and witness to this eternal miracle. The sense of the right time in "all our affairs" is indeed implicit in each of our Twelve Steps. Too soon or too late was the litany of my drinking days and it is with constantly expanding relief and freedom that I have come ever so painfully to recognize that though my timing and God's seldom coincide, if I but leave it alone, God's timing will always manifest itself, in clear and unmistakable direction.