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A marine, dealing with past trauma, shares how AA stopped his drinking and gave him a little peace

He’s gotten through moves, loved one’s deaths, viral meningitis and age issues, and he hasn’t had a drink since 1970

I thought, But for the grace of God I get to be here. When I left the jail, I sat in my car and cried tears of joy and thanked God that I had been given a heart that could love like this.

Despite certain knowledge that he was an alcoholic, he kept drinking for 30 years. AA freed him

Regain. Remember. Rediscover

Miffed that his financial advice wasn’t followed, a member learns to let go.
According to Tradition Four, a group can do as they see fit

A moment on a winter day reminds him that if we just let go and give up
fighting we can let others help us fly again

No job, no wife, no driver’s license or money. Here he was 30 days sober, in the cold, and now the AA meeting door was locked

On a remote island near Russia, a member lucks out and finds another alcoholic, whose AA lifeline is the phone

I heard two things that night: “Come back” and “Pray, if you can.” I knew I was in a fix. But desperation led me to say this prayer anyway.

No meeting rooms? Share on camera? Unmute? How will we do this? COVID-19 kicked this old-timer’s program into high gear

How right action stops his negative thinking and keeps him from swinging from the same old tree

Gratitude comes with working the program—and finding true belief

After a meeting takes a wrong turn, a member has a few thoughts about “principles before personalities”