Wed Night AA Riverside Men's Group

Good evening fellas, Just your reminder this week we'll be reviewing  Student of Life p319-327.  I like this section of the book "They Stopped in Time" (part II of the personal stories) because they really illustrate just how varied & different our bottoms can be .  For many, the lack of  consequences  was equal to proof of not having a problem. However, in my case, I was only got clear headed enough after getting sober to really see the consequences of my actions -- it's probably one of the reasons we kept drinking past the point of sanity; to keep us oblivious to the reality of our drinking .     Sometimes, we may  feel  we still have some legs under us as far as the drink goes. This weekend I accompanied my girlfriend to a bar in San Pedro for her department's after-hours work party and  Ohhhhhhh Mmmaaaaaaaaaan !! They had some drinks I'd never heard of and now they've got these portable beer fountains they bring straight t...

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...