Are We Fulfilling Our Primary Purpose?
September 1986
By:
H. M.
| Bellaire, Texas
The following three articles were originally presentations at the 1986 General Service Conference
Paradox of Power
April 1982
By:
D. H.
| Delmar, New York
Letting go" means discipline, and joy comes through pain
Unfinished Business
April 1978
By:
J. F.
| Ashland, Virginia
Working Steps Eight and Nine heals old wounds and frees us from guilt
What Power Is This?
October 1977
By:
F. F. O.
| Laguna Niguel, California
There are mysterious happenings in AA that seem to go far beyond the realm of mere coincidence
Help the Young People Identify!
August 1975
By:
Woodie" L.
| New Orleans, Louisiana
They don't have to keep on drinking
Woman's Prerogative
May 1975
By:
M. M. C.
| Plattsburgh, New York
Watching women newcomers change their minds as they grow in the program
Invasion
January 1974
By:
C. H.
| Fairfield, Connecticut
Can we keep our cool when crowds of "forced attenders" show up?
A Sponsor Can't Be My Higher Power
May 1972
By:
Dean S.
| Santa Monica, California
We belong to no one and no one belongs to us. We are God's "babies
The Laundromat Lush
November 1969
By:
M. S.
| Cypress, California
She lost so many of her husband's shirts, she almost lost him
Plenty of 12th Step Work
April 1947
Group in Bronx
November 1946
The Glass Palace
July 2017
By:
Sharat S.
| India
God has his own way of distributing gifts to those who ask for them—this alcoholic did not know he was even in the queue until his Higher Power intervened
The Varieties Of AA Literature
October 2003
By:
Paul C.
| Oceanside, California
--One Member's Experience
Leadership vs. Dictatorship
November 1990
By:
J. P. L.
| North Haledon, New Jersey
From the March 1961 Grapevine
79 Years With the Bottle
September 1961
By:
Louis R., by P. C.
| Washington, D. C.
His mother put whiskey in his baby bottle. From then on, any old jug would do