Daily
Reflections reading December 10th
Carrying The Message
Now,
what about the rest of the Twelfth Step? The wonderful energy it releases and
the eager action by which it carries our message to the next suffering alcoholic
and which finally translates the Twelve Steps into action upon all our affairs
is the payoff, the magnificent reality, of Alcoholics Anonymous. TWELVE STEPS
AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 109
To
renounce the alcoholic world is not to abandon it, but to act upon principles I
have come to love and cherish, and to restore in others who still suffer the
serenity I have come to know. When I am truly committed to this purpose, it
matters little what clothes I wear or how I make a living. My task is to carry
the message, and to lead by example, not design.
© Alcoholics Anonymous World Services
My thoughts on December 10th Reading
Carrying the message was a commitment to AA and a must for
me, I have served in almost every service positions in the fellowship, last
being DCM for a district, best way I can describe My commitment to AA is with
this letter I wrote to the district I had the honor to serve for two years
Knowing I can't do it alone, as your newly elected DCM its
my pleasure to serve you and our District for the next two years, I hope as
your trusted servant I can bring some new enthusiasm, and give back some basic
principles to the groups of this district
Along with new hope to the still sick and suffering
Alcoholics who come to any of our meetings, in the new year and new century I
would like to welcome all the newly elected GSR'S from all the groups and to
thank all the GSR'S who have served and are still serving the district
I also encourage any group that has not yet elected a GSR to
do so as soon as possible, as members of alcoholics anonymous and members of a
group in the district its up to you, to see that your group holds business
meetings, gives you the information as to how your group works,
What the financial status of your group is, what your groups
conscience is, what your group hopes to accomplish, and how they are going to
accomplish these things you set out to do, where you can voice your opinions,
and be heard,
All members have a right to be heard even if they have
minority opinions, it is vitally important to express those opinions, no group
or individual Member of Alcoholics Anonymous should ever deny you the right to
be heard
We want to hear everyone's views on A.A. and how we should
carry the message of recovery, to those who are still out there, when you
declare yourself a member of AA, you also have accepted the very same
responsibility of carrying the message to another Alcoholic
As those who declared themselves members before you this is
your district and only you can decide what message you want your
representatives to carry, what commitments your district needs to fill and how
you want these commitments filled Get involved fill your service positions
This was the beginning of their service work for their
groups when they came to our district meetings they learned they do not speak
for their group but as trusted servants, they carry the message of there group
to the district and to bring back information to the groups from the district
And from the area meeting so they could have a vote to
accept, or deny, what was proposed at the district meeting as a District
Committee Member my part was to bring the collective thoughts of all the groups
in my district to the Area service meetings
As a servant of the districts groups, I had to carry down to
the General Service Representative what the area proposed to do, so they could
get this information to their groups to accept or reject at the area level all this
information gathered by all the groups thru they districts
Was to be carried forwards to the General Service conference
for recommendations on how to move forwards in serving alcoholics anonymous as
a whole, this whole structure is from the individual member of alcoholics
anonymous going to their groups business meeting
To express themselves in a group conscience vote to be
carried by their GSR to their district meeting and on up to the area and
finally to the General, Service Conference, the Groups thru they GSR are the
ones who make recovery happen
Not GSO telling Areas, or districts, or individual groups,
how they can best carry the message, each group is autonomous and has the final
say in how the group works thru the group conscience vote so long as it does
not affect AA as a whole
Take back you rights get active in your recovery, there is
no joy greater than in a Twelfth Step call that is accepted by the new comer,
to watch their eyes open with wonder, as they move from darkness into light, to
see their lives fill with purpose and meaning
To see them received back into life, to watch people awaken
to the presence of a loving God in their lives, we have to give them all the
same chance we received when we came into the halls of AA, their experiences
must be shared the same way our experiences were shared
Some of us may not be able to identify with parts of there
experiences, but that’s not to say we can not identify with their way of
recovery, working the steps into their lives, we all have had different
experiences in how we arrived at the doors
Some went from alcohol to uses drugs to control there
drinking like Bill W and Dr Bob, in today’s society most go from taken drugs to
using alcohol to get of the drugs, only to find themselves addicted to both we
need to hear these experiences less we do the same
God gave
us this gift to pass on to the next sick and suffering alcoholic lets all carry
this message
“God can do for us what we can't do for ourselves if we let Him”
God bless you Al M
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