Slow Grower
May 2016 | On the Cover

Slow Grower

His sponsor planted the seed of general service, but it didn’t take root right away. He had to get there on his own

I was fresh from a drying-out facility and entering my first AA meeting on the outside. I remember walking down a ramp into the room where the meeting was scheduled for 8:00. I was a bit early and yet there was a meeting in progress. I remember hearing a guy named Owen say, “Mark will do that.” As I got closer, I found that I had been “volunteered” to handle the group’s large collection of literature.

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