So one of the old timers couldn’t make it to a meeting and asked me to sub for him, I said I didn’t have my year yet, he said I’ve made enough coffee and cleaned enough cigarette butts up around the church to get a shot.
Picked up butts in the way in and on the way back to the car, I needed some extra ego deflation and picking up those butts man, keeps my mind in the right place.
Posted Apr 19, 2019, 3:24 AM UTC
Great effort my friend.
The long time AA member passed on and arrived at the pearly gates. Met St Peter. He said well I have some good new and some bad news for you. The good news we have an AA meeting every day. A little puzeled the man ask what is the bad news. You are Charing tonight's meeting.
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That's great. What was the topic?
Step 2, focusing on how people felt when they first got their, how they worked through it with their sponsor. For me I felt resentful I had to give it to god, almost verbatim the first paragraph in the 12 and 12, which was the reading I chose. Went well I think.
Step two is always good..... I've heard a lot of 1 and 3, but people seem to skip over 2. Sounds like a good topic :)
Thanks brother. Yeah, it was a new comer meeting and I felt like we had already had step 3 meetings for basically 2 months in a row. I wanted to get into that weird period between 1 and 2, you know what I mean?
That period where newcomers they either find some kind of willingness or they don’t. I wanted to hear from the people I knew who had gone in and out and was able to call on them, and then I tried to sprinkle between them the folks I had noted during introductions who had maybe 1-4 months of sobriety you know what I mean.
It was really good, one guy with 2 months basically talked himself into being “willing to be willing” to come to believe, I was so happy for him, I remember that moment in myself.
A lady asked for a chip at the end of the meeting as well, she said she wanted what we had. Man I was so happy after that meeting.
Step two for me is that I would not be of sound mind to think that I was not an alcoholic. When I read that I was hooked on the 12&12. Thanks for chairing the meeting. 👍
I didn’t know you need a year sober to chair. In NA, I was chairing at 60 days (I attend both fellowships).
At any rate, congrats!! Chairing is a powerful feeling as it makes me feel better about service work.
It varies wildly by location and home group. Some places require you to have three months, while others require a year -- the idea being that by then you have some message to share. In my home group, it's three months, as we have a lot of newcomers in our home group. But I've seen other groups require six months or a year.
My group's requirement is 6 months sober.
That’s the deal, thank you.
Thanks for listening bud. Have a great evening. So glad I popped on to AA on Reddit tonight, helped me remember to thank my hp for keeping me sober and ask it “help me show me” almost forgot!