When one alcoholic/addict shares with another alcoholic/addict

[MajestyJo]

November 22

"For all its usual destructiveness, we have found that fear can be the starting point for better things. Fear can be a stepping-stone to prudence and to a decent respect for others. It can point the path to justice, as well as to hate. And the more we have of respect and justice, the more we shall begin to find the love which can suffer much, and yet be freely given. So fear need not always be destructive, because the lessons of its consequences can lead us to positive values."

Celebrating The Language of the Heart

AA Co-Founder, Bill W., January 1962
"This Matter of Fear"
The Language of the Heart

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November 23

"The Twelve Steps are deceptively simple but provide limitless spiritual growth for anyone with the patience to stay the course."

Voice of Long Term Sobriety

Riverside, Ill., September 2007
"It Works for Me,"
Voices of Long-Term Sobriety

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November 24

"We sense that here in AA this shared darkness has become a shared light."

Spiritual Awakenings Vol. 1
Pleasantville, N.Y., August 1959
"The Sense of Sobriety"
Spiritual Awakenings

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November 25

"I ask the newcomer to help me wash the coffeepot, or put chairs away, because service was, and still is, my key to belonging."

I Am Responsible

Manchester, New Hampshire, September 2000
"The Key to Belonging,"
I Am Responsible: The Hand of AA

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November 26

"I was amazed at the things I was grateful for: those painful situations that served to show me my character defects; the ability to accept and share my pain with others; the opportunities to do things I was afraid to do which gave me strength and confidence."

Spiritual Awakenings Vol. 1

State College, Pa., April 1994
"Working Incognito,"
Spiritual Awakenings

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November 27

"To be happily sober, we must be active -- and this does not necessarily mean group activity. The Loner is part of a much larger group of people in far distant places, all members of AA with the same problems, fears, and happiness to be shared ... I may not be in face-to-face contact with other AA members, but my real friends in AA are too many to enumerate, and I find there aren't enough hours in the day to do all I should."

AA Around the World

Salisbury, Rhodesia, February 1970
"Alone? Not This Loner!"

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November 28

"Recovery is giving it away. If you don't give it away you can't have it ... Be part of the pipeline."

I Am Responsible

Greenwich Village, N.Y., December 1997
"Oh God, You Again?"
I Am Responsible: The Hand of AA


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November 29

"Difficult times bring us to new degrees of acceptance and humility because we learn on a deeper level how close we really are to our next drink. If we hang on, we learn how the grace of the Fellowship and the principles of the program carry us through the tough spots as well as the times of joy."

Voice of Long Term Sobriety

Providence, R.I., March 2009
"The Bottom of the Glass,"
Voices of Long-Term Sobriety