• January 31 - Our Common Welfare Comes First - Ceci B. (Ponte Vedra Beach, FL)

  • Jan 31 2023
  • Length: 19 mins
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January 31 - Our Common Welfare Comes First - Ceci B. (Ponte Vedra Beach, FL)

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  • Ceci joins us today to share on the concept of the group, the program and the fellowship coming before our own personal desires. She also shares a beautiful poem by Mary Oliver entitled "Praying"...

    It doesn't have to be
    the blue iris, it could be
    weeds in a vacant lot, or a few
    small stones; just
    pay attention, then patch

    a few words together and don't try
    to make them elaborate, this isn't
    a contest but the doorway

    into thanks, and a silence in which
    another voice may speak.

    OUR COMMON WELFARE COMES FIRST

    The unity of Alcoholics Anonymous is the most cherished quality our Society has . . . We stay whole, or A. A. dies

    TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 129

    Our Traditions are key elements in the ego deflation process necessary to achieve and maintain sobriety in Alcoholics Anonymous. The First Tradition reminds me not to take credit, or authority, for my recovery. Placing our common welfare first reminds me not to become a healer in this program; I am still one of the patients. Self-effacing elders built the ward. Without it, I doubt I would be alive. Without the group, few alcoholics would recover. The active role in renewed surrender of will enables me to step aside from the need to dominate, the desire for recognition, both of which played so great a part in my active alcoholism. Deferring my personal desires for the greater good of group growth contributes toward A.A. unity that is central to all recovery. It helps me to remember that the whole is greater than the sum of all its parts.

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