PO Box 1980

The following are what I see as AA's real, top-priority problems. The influx of complex pop-psychology is smothering the simplicity of the Twelve Steps. Newcomers are not given the attention I was given only three years ago, and certainly nowhere near the attention our old-timers received when they came in. We're not giving much of our time or our phone numbers to the newcomers and we're threatening our own sobriety by neglecting the all-important Twelfth Step. When was the last time an AA member got the newcomer's phone number and took him to the next meeting? And I don't know how or when, but sometime in the last couple of years, we somehow garbled our spiritual message by yelling, "Keep coming back, it works if you work it" at meeting's end, which has little to do with the AA program and nothing at all to do with the Lord's Prayer or any other prayer.