Outsiders Impression Of An "Open" AA Meeting

[bobby1933]

At the suggestion of my 12-step program sponser, i started to attend AA meetings.  This i did each week from August througjh Deccember, and i plan to resume attendance as soon as my strength is back.

Comments

[amaebi]

It occurs to me, belatedly, that AA meetings should be and probably typically are places talk about things they really care about.

There's not enough of that around.

[bobby1933]

Well,many of the alcoholics who find AA are pretty desperate, The know their choices are sobriety or death. Their interest in alcohol seems obsessive to anyone who doesn't understand.

They understand that their solution must be a spiritual one, and their recovery depends on unity and service

[amaebi]

Yes.

A friend of mine, a seminary colleague, has enormous difficulties in his struggle with alcoholism because he has become rather violently atheist, and there are almost no secular Nebraska support or twelve-step groups. :(

[everville340]

Thank you for sharing your journey of sobriety, sir. It is refreshing to hear your view of what it once was to you as opposed to what it is now.

[bobby1933]

And thank you for reading it.