Daily
Reflections reading March 28th
Equality
Our
membership ought to include all who suffer from alcoholism. Hence we may refuse
none who wish to recover. Nor ought A.A. membership ever depend upon money or
conformity. Any two or three alcoholics gathered together for sobriety may call
themselves an A.A. group, provided that, as a group, they have no other
affiliation. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 565
Prior
to A.A., I often felt that I didn’t “fit in” with the people around me. Usually
“they” had more/less money than I did, and my points of view didn’t jibe with
“theirs.” The amount of prejudice I had experienced in society only proved to
me just how phony some self -righteous people were. After joining A.A., I found
the way of life I had been searching for. In A.A. no member is any better than
any other member; we’re just alcoholics trying to recover from alcoholism.
©
Alcoholics Anonymous World Services
My
thoughts on March 28th Reading
Equality one of the things I have seen in meeting, is others
prejudging some new AA members as losers, personally I do not, but I have see
many who have judged others as losers, even going as far as asking why we waste
our time trying to help people who keep going back out over and over
The answer is simple when ever anyone anywhere’s reaches out
I want the hand of AA to be there many come and go, but if they ask for help, I
will try my best to help them to find recovery to me all are welcome, as
tradition three says it was simplicity itself
At last experience taught us we are all equal, to take away
any alcoholic's full chance, was sometimes to pronounce his death sentence,
often to condemn them to endless misery, who dared to be judge, jury, and
executioner
Of his own sick brother or sister, thank God we are
"all inclusive" never exclusive none refused I have to look at when I
came into the halls, I know I did not know what I wanted at that time, I sure
did not feel like I belonged when I first came to the halls
I don’t think I was to sincere, but when I started to accept
the teachings of the program, I like so many other did became sincere, to judge
someone a phony could take their chances of recovery away from them, sometimes
quickly sometimes slowly the promises will come true
When I carry the message it is to insure I have one more day
of sobriety, I will not let personalities
Get in the way of my own recovery, why would I let them
interfere with someone else’s recovery
After all I did not believe in much when I arrived at the
doors
I came, I came too, I came to believe I am not impressed by
anyone who comes into the halls, we are a very diverse group of people, from
all walks of life looking for the same thing, to solve our common problem
alcoholism
And to carry the message to others who suffer from our
disease, the only thing I get impressed with, is when the light goes off and
another alcoholic finds the hope to carry on with recovery, when someone turns
up at AA needing information or help
It does not really matter to me what they do for a living,
where they live, what their domestic arrangements are, have they been to AA
before, when anyone turns to AA needed any information I am glad to reach out
and help them
Be it questions, literature, times, and places of meetings,
how Anonymity works, or the ten thousand other things they may want to know
about, it is none of my business where they live, what arrangements they have,
if they have been to AA before, or what their other problems are
I am here to insure they have the same chance at recovery I
have had when I came into AA, I reach out to others with a welcomed hand to
carry the message of hope, to anyone who wants it in so doing I insure myself
of one more day of sobriety for myself, this is all I ask for one more day
God in His grace granted me the serenity to accept this and
the wisdom to reach out to help anyone who wants recovery, Equality is the
condition of being equal and in AA we are sure all equal in our disease and can
be equal in our recovery for this common disease
God bless you Al M
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