Grapevine

September 1975 By: B. M. | Saratoga, California When we cannot suffer others, we are the ones who suffer MY TENDENCY to find other people irritating and objectionable because they have faults has long been a source of discomfort to me. I am annoyed even when those faults are causing me no real inconvenience. I … Read more

May 1979 By: C. W. | Huntington, West Virginia SERENITY WAS gone, and sobriety threatened to follow. After nearly three years of sobriety in AA, I recently became overwhelmed with physical and emotional problems. Luckily, I was attending a group formed to study the Twelve Steps. I had helped start this group and regarded myself … Read more

September 1985 By: J. M. | Fife Lake, Michigan After sobering up and getting active in AA, I was going to do great things. I took a new member of the program into my home and was really going to keep him sober. At this point, I think God said to me, “Okay, go ahead … Read more

We’re always changing, but who can predict the final result? ONE OF LIFE’S blessings for us in the program is the lack of continuity we are presented with in times of struggle, those times when we aren’t where we were but don’t yet know where experience will take us. In the past, these times produced … Read more

July 1953 By: Anon. | New York, New York THESE words to me and for me are three of the most important and significant in the whole program of Alcoholics Anonymous. In the first place it was necessary for me to come to believe and accept the fact that I was and am an alcoholic. … Read more