Tradition 4: From the Bottom Up

This morning, as I was reading the book Thank You for Sharing--Sixty Years of Letters to the AA Grapevine, I came across letters in a section regarding a story about the Lord's Prayer in AA meetings. As I read from letter to letter, each opinion voicing valid concerns and viewpoints from both sides of the issue, it occurred to me that there may be no better reason for AA members to learn the Traditions and our service structure, and how they allow us to operate, than this topic. It is virtually as old as our Fellowship itself, and returns as regularly as clockwork.