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By:
Susan W.
| Bristol, Tenn.
During her drinking day, she tossed around like a leaf blowing in the wind. No longer.
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
Gratitude
August 2012
By:
F. M.
| New Canaan, Connecticut
How do you manage to feel grateful when you're feeling terrible?
An Unencumbered Man
June 2011
By:
David S.
| New York, New York
AA had ruined his drinking; now it ruined his isolation
Able to dream
June 2010
By:
Pooran K.
| Williamsville
A young Hindi teacher's drinking goes from social to pathological
Tradition One: You Call This Unity?
January 2006
By:
Dorothy H.
| Piscataway, New Jersey
from the January 1992 Grapevine
The Writing On the Wall
December 2003
By:
Patrick C.
| Provincetown, Massachusetts
He'd heard a higher power can be seen in anything. He never dreamed he'd find it in a note written by a stranger in a parked car.
Is This All There Is?
November 2003
By:
David S.
| New York, New York
An AA checks his supply of spiritual oxygen --Step Eleven - Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God <emphasis type="underline">as we understood Him</emphasis>, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the po
An Embarrassment Of Riches
April 2003
By:
Anonymous
Do they stem from instant enlightenment or slow. Painstaking growth?
A High Class Drunk
January 1994
By:
Cornelius B.
| Vancouver, British Columbia
I learned not to judge others by appearances
In AA's First Five Years
November 1993
Lois W., wife of AA's co-founder, Bill, recalls the time in AA when there were few members and no Big Book. - From the January 1967 Grapevine
