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gadzooks - hate to say this but last week we sat through a drugalog at our women's AA meeting - and because I was lax in my primary purpose responsibilities I didn't jump in and stop it - me and about a dozen other regulars in the group.
Won't happen again. Had to type up a primary purpose statement of confining our discussion to our recovery from our alcoholism, and have to actually state that while drugs were a part of some of our stories, we need to stay with our primary focus.
What is AA coming to? And not if we can help it.
Jim, you were right on point. It's going on all over AA and I personally don't like it. Neither do a lot of folks. There are a bunch of us here who are deliberately working to stop it.
One step at a time. Being adamant that this IS AA, nothing else.
Gets uncomfortable sometimes, espcially haviing to cope with those coming out of treatment centers. They simply do not want to believe that the steps are the answer to ALL their problems. Got one sponsee right now who has simply created chaos in her life since graduating from the treatment center due to her failure to even begin the work. I'm just about at the point of finding someone else to work with due to all the nonsense and unwillingness to do the work. Her first line of defense about not starting the work is "Well, I did go to a meeting." I wish she'd use the time to do the work. Sigh!
AA Hugs,
Linda
----- Original Message -----From: manonpage21Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 9:18 AMSubject: [We_Have_Recovered] Re: RantNow, Linda:
How is the newcomer supposed to know that he can have a bad day and
stay sober if we don't dump our feelings in a meeting and then
say "but I didn't choose to drink over it?"
--- In We_Have_Recovered@yahoogroups.com, "Linda" <soberlady@...>
wrote:
>
> eeeek
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: manonpage21
> To: We_Have_Recovered@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 7:19 AM
> Subject: [We_Have_Recovered] Re: Rant
>
>
> Jim, why didn't you process your feelings at the meeting? Isn't
that
> what meetings are for?
>
>
>
>
> --- In We_Have_Recovered@yahoogroups.com, "Jim K." <jknyc@>
wrote:
> >
> > I was at one of the local Bronxville, NY meetings on Sunday
night
> and
> > was just so pissed at the level of disinformation distributed
at
> > meetings. I'm sure it showed when I shared.
> >
> > The topic was "vigilance". The whole meeting was filled with
> comments
> > about how we need never forget for a single second that we are
> > alcoholic and that we need to go to meetings everyday or we
are in
> > danger of getting drunk. God was a footnote if He was
mentioned at
> all.
> >
> > I shared that I have lost the power of choice in drink and
that I
> have
> > no effective mental defense against the first drink, that I
have a
> > daily reprieve contingent on the daily maintenance of my
spiritual
> > condition - which may or may not include a meeting but does
> include
> > daily prayer and meditation. What I need to be "vigilant"
about is
> my
> > spiritual condition.
> >
> > It gets discouraging at times, it really does, but I have a
> > responsibility to have the hand of the AA Program there at
> meetings so
> > that when an alcoholic of the hopeless variety shows up he has
> > something to grasp besides the flimsy reed of daily meeting
> attendance.
> >
> > Jim
> >
>
>
>
>
>
>
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