In our meetings, we pass around a basket for our 7th tradition of AA, which states, “We are self-supporting through our own contributions.” You are not required to give, just a dollar will suffice.
I have heard people say that sitting in an AA meeting is the only place I can go to get “change” for a dollar.
Clever, and true. I am not sitting there waiting for change. I am changing as I am sitting there, listening to others’ stories. I am becoming willing and open to doing things differently.
I also heard there —Nothing changes if nothing changes.
Addiction (insanity) is doing the same thing over an over and expecting different results. I needed to try something new. I didn’t think that I could live my life without alcohol because I had not done it before. When I tried in the past, I found myself going right back to what I knew, even though it did not work. It was an external solution to an internal problem.
Patterns. I had to break the cycle and do something I had never done.
"If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.” Thomas Jefferson
Come to a meeting and see how others are staying sober with each other and in community. We are here to show you that it works. We don’t even need your dollar!
Just come and sit.
Listen to others share.
Change is possible.
Serenity Prayer:
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Amen.
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