Wed Night AA Riverside Men's Group

Hi Folks, This week we finish up  Chapt 4: Sobriety - A Spiritual Rest - p.127-142. I wanted to touch on something that I don't think we covered last week but that really struck me. On the last page of last week's reading (p127), Chuck C said in reference to the words of the big book of Alcoholics Anonymous: Every time I read them, every time I talk about them, they're new. The words remain the same, but we don't. And it depends entirely where we are what they mean. They will always be more meaningful. They always take a new meaning, depending on where WE are. And we'll be walking up this ladder forever. A world without end, Amen.  Sometimes we're at the ground level looking up at that enormous skyscraper and sometimes we're on the top floor looking down at the miniature city below. Our eyes see completely different things depending on our vantage point.   Likewise, our minds perceive  differently depending on where we are physically, emotionally...

Hello folks, This week we're continuing with "A New Pair of Glasses" by CHUCK C (some people were a bit confused *ejem* edwin!). We'll be reading  Chapt 4: Sobriety - A Spiritual Rest - p.111-127.  Lately we've sort of taken to reading pages 84-85 in the big book at the end of the meeting instead of the promises, which is fitting because this chapter is loosely based on the phrase " ... We have ceased fighting anything or anyone - even alcohol " (p84). Now this happens to be one of my friend Dave W's favorite phrases and I'm fortunate to hear him say it often; Sometimes slowly and sometimes  very  slowly, its started to sink in through the layers of my thick skull through the power of repetition (as I like to say, Practice makes Permanent!).  Just for today, I don't have to run the show. I don't have to out-think, out-perform, or out-maneuver  anyone or anything  in order to "eke out a miserable living out of an unfriendly uni...