![]() ![]() It offers a perspective on the value of life’s struggles that I’m not sure I’ve heard more elegantly described. I had never heard it before and found its message piercing, moving, powerful. His family found many copies of this poem in his home. I attended the funeral of an AA friend who lived a life filled with giving unconditionally to those in need, often in desperate situations. This reading brought me back to this poem you may have heard me recite before. How does this unconditional practice of these principles encourage me deepen and develop my relationship with God? How crucial is this unconditional practice in experiencing what it the Big Book mentions in How It Works and about abandoning myself to find God? How essential are my difficulties, in whatever form, to discovering what self-deception I may now have my practice of these principles in all my affairs. What beyond my sobriety do I wish to practice without condition today right now?ĥ. How does my encounter with pride and despair rob me of an experience of more authentic version of success?ģ.Ěre courage and serenity possible or even desirable in all circumstances?Ĥ. This article raises a number of important questions for me worth further considering:Ģ. In working all the Steps thoroughly, I not only stay sober and help someone else to achieve sobriety, but also I transform my difficulty with living into a joy of living. Eventually I learned that it was necessary for me to “practice these principles” in all areas of my life. I was forgetting that there were a total of Twelve Steps and that the Twelfth Step also had more than one part. In the same way, I believed for a long time that, in order to be in tune with the Twelve Steps, it was enough for me “to carry this message to alcoholics.” That was rushing things. and stopped drinking, it took a while before I understood why the First Step contained two parts: my powerlessness over alcohol, and my life’s unmanageability. Click Here to see and listen for yourself.Furthermore, how shall we come to terms with seeming failure or success? Can we now accept and adjust to either without despair or pride? Can we accept poverty, sickness, loneliness, and bereavement with courage and serenity? Can we steadfastly content ourselves with the humbler, yet sometimes more durable, satisfactions when the brighter, more glittering achievements are denied us? Cloud Intergroup (SCI) in the Corrections Correspondence Program is featured in an article in the July, 2022 AA Grapevine on page 24 entitled, “All Hands on Deck” and on Season 3, Episode 1 of the Grapevine Podcast entitled "When Life Goes Down, AA Shows Up". Click here to read this article for yourself. This article profiles how SCI helped to start the first Spanish Speaking AA Meeting back in June of 2022. Cloud Intergroup (SCI) is featured in an article in the December 2022 AA Grapevine starting on page 30 entitled, "¡Bienvenidos a AA! / Welcome to AA!". Cloud Intergroup (SCI) Service Opportunities. Click here for the "Save the Date" flyer and please share with your meetings and groups! : Are you looking to do some Twelve Step Work? Click here to take a look at one of our St. Cloud Intergroup AA Convention will take place on Saturday, September 16th at the Monticello Alano Club starting at 11 am. Click Here to download the new SCI Meeting Directory. Click here to find out how SCI was born and where it is going to be of maximum service to the still suffering alcoholic in Central Minnesota… : The SCI Meeting Directory has been updated and is in a printable PDF format (available in both English or Spanish). Cloud Intergroup (SCI) has been written and continues on today. Please join us! Click Here to learn more… : The history of the St. Speaker and Orientation Session on Monday, July 10th from 7 pm to 8 pm. : Carrying the Message: SCI will be holding an A.A.
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