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December 2024

Remote Communities and Sober Holidays

This month’s featured section is “Remote Communities and Sober Holidays,” with helpful stories by members who have a difficult time reaching AA and members who help them through service. Also included are some wonderful Sober Holiday stories.

Grapevine Daily Quote November 20

“For all its usual destructiveness, we have found that fear can be the starting point for better things. Fear can be a stepping-stone to prudence and to a decent respect for others. It can point the path to justice, as well as to hate. And the more we have of respect and justice, the more we shall begin to find the love which can suffer much, and yet be freely given. So fear need not always be destructive, because the lessons of its consequences can lead us to positive values.”

AA Co-Founder, Bill W., January 1962, “This Matter of Fear”, The Language of the Heart

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Best Holiday Ever

I used to despise the holidays. Look how everyone acts on Black Friday. Pushing, sleeping overnight and fighting in parking lots … no problem with self-righteousness here!

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How I Made It Through the Holidays

Several years ago on a bitterly cold Friday night, I went to my first AA meeting. I was new in town and wasn’t properly dressed for that night’s subzero temperatures.

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Confessions of a Sober Loner

I started drinking at 16 and did it consistently for 18 years, mostly alone. I was and am what people might call different.

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No Ordinary Lunch

A dear AA friend and former sponsor and I decided to have lunch together.

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Group Hug

I sobered up in January of 1977. Since that time, I have lived in five states and two countries.

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Too Good to Be True

In May 1956, a doctor who was a Marine veteran from WWII, brought his medical bag home with him so he could give a first aid class to his daughter’s Girl Scout troop.

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Grapevine Daily Quote November 20

“For all its usual destructiveness, we have found that fear can be the starting point for better things. Fear can be a stepping-stone to prudence and to a decent respect for others. It can point the path to justice, as well as to hate. And the more we have of respect and justice, the more we shall begin to find the love which can suffer much, and yet be freely given. So fear need not always be destructive, because the lessons of its consequences can lead us to positive values.”

AA Co-Founder, Bill W., January 1962, “This Matter of Fear”, The Language of the Heart

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