Good Morning! Chapter 11 - "A Vision for You" begins on page 151. If you have been following along with the study from the beginning you are aware of the...
Good morning all! There are a great many places that have marked AA's early history. The Mayflower Hotel in Ohio is one. Towns Hospital at 293 Central Park...
Good Morning, everyone! Dr. Bob's Nightmare is the first of the personal stories on page 171. Page 165 is interesting however. This is the Section Heading...
Welcome everyone! We've just completed our last cycle and we will start from the Title page and work our way through to Doctor Bob's story once again. The next...
Welcome everyone to the newest cycle of our Big Book Study! We'll be examining the book very closely throughout the coming weeks. It is important to note that...
Good morning everyone! Let’s turn to page xi, the Preface to the Third Edition, and look at paragraph #2. This book is identified as "the basic text for our...
Good morning everyone, welcome to those who have just joined us- Turning to page xv and reading through to the end of the foreword to the second edition we...
Good morning everyone! We're still on page xvii of the foreword to the second edition. They describe two centers of activity around 1936. AA's group number 3 ...
Good morning! We're at paragraph 1, page xxiv, right after the first letter. "...the body of the alcoholic is quite as abnormal as his mind." This was a...
Good Morning! First, let’s answer that question I posted Friday concerning "Pot" in the Big Book. Here it is, on the old doggerel: "Here lies a Hampshire...
Good morning everyone- We're at the top of page 8, Paragraph 1: "No words can tell of the loneliness and despair I found in that bitter morass of self-pity....
My friend Dean has informed me that The Wilson House is now accepting reservations for The Big Book Comes Alive with Jim and Dave are for the spring seminar...
Good morning everyone! We're at the top of page 13- Bill went again to Towns Hospital to be separated from alcohol for the last time. This is at the beginning...
Good Morning! We're on page 17 - Chapter 2 - "There is a Solution" One of the literary devices that Bill employs on this page relates to events that are...
Good morning! Turning our books to Page 25, let's look at paragraph 2: "The great fact is just this, and nothing less: That we have had deep and effective...
Welcome back everyone- We're at Page 30 - Chapter 3 "More (Truth) About Alcoholism". This is where we will discuss, in depth, the state of mind that preceeds ...
Good Morning all! Paragraph 2 - Page 35: "Jim the car salesman" is example number 2 of alcoholic insanity. Reading through paragraph 3 on this page: "We told...
Today we are at Chapter 4 - We Agnostics, Page 44. We should start by defining some terms. "Agnostic" is comprised of two parts - "Ag" which is the Greek for...
Good morning all! ***Here's a good exercise for Chapter 4. Read through and count how many times the word "prejudice" in it's various forms appears. Also count...
Good morning! Appendix II - "The Spiritual Experience" is found on page 569. "The terms "spiritual experience" and "spiritual awakening" are used many times in...
Good morning! We can gain some insight into the writing of the book through an examination of the original text (pre-publication "Multilith") in conjunction...
Good Morning and welcome back everyone! Thanks "Honey" for helping out yesterday! Beginning on Page 59, paragraph 1, we'll continue to examine the text as...
Good Morning, everyone! Paragraph 2 on page 60: "Our description of the alcoholic, [found in the Doctor's Opinion and Chapter 3 - More About Alcoholism] the...
'Morning everyone :) We are on page 62, Paragraph 3. Here we find out the position that God will occupy in our lives: "This is the how and the why of it. First...
Good morning, everyone! We are at the bottom of page 63, last paragraph: "Next we launched out on a course of vigorous action, the first step of which is a...
Several fellow members have begun participating in a new group that I formed to discuss the writings of Emmet Fox. I'm currently participating in a face to...
Good morning everyone, and welcome back. We're at Paragraph 3 on page 64 - "Resentment is the number one offender. It destroys more alcoholics than anything...
Good morning! We are filling out the third column of the first of four parts of our 4th Step inventory. The four parts are: 1. Resentments 2. Fears 3. Sexual...
Good Morning, everyone! We are at page 72 - Chapter 6 "Into Action" - and we're about to embark on our discussion of the 5th Step! "Having made our personal...
Good morning everyone! We are on Page 75. Paragraph 2 on this page includes the 5th Step promises: "Once we have taken this step, witholding nothing, we are...