Wed Night AA Riverside Men's Group

Good evening, We come, at last, to the end of the book. This week we close out by reading Chapter 9 - Becoming Happy. I've had a copy of this book for a while now, a few months before we began reading it here. To be honest, when I first got the book I skipped every other chapter and read this chapter first. Somehow, I don't think I'm unique in wanting to skip the BS and just get to the "Being Happy" part!!  Although, now that I think about, the name of the chapter is  Becoming  Happy  not   Being  Happy. There is definitely a process at work here. On page 132 of The Big Book it says:  "We are sure God wants us to be happy, joyous, and free."  However, it also says in the first two lines of How it Works:   " Rarely have we seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed our path. Those who do not recover are people who cannot or will not completely give themselves to this simple program..." When I put those two facts together I realize tha...

Good evening everyone,        This is your friendly reminder that this week we will continue upon our path to  happy usefulness  (p130) by reading chapter 9 - The Family Afterward.        So often it is said  better to identify than to compare . That seemed to be true of the reading last week. This week there are certainly no shortage of things to identify with in the chapter.         Last week I had a strange feeling about the reading, although I forgot to share about it! (of course) This week that feeling seems to be confirmed. That feeling is that no matter what part of the big book you're reading, no matter whether you are single, married (with children or without), a single parent, divorced, windowed, whether you're high bottom or low bottom, cross addicted or straight alcoholic, whether you're a rocket scientist or  just plain retarded  (please refer to the 2...