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   The Twelve Concepts (Short Form)

Concept 6:  On behalf of A. A. as a whole, our General Service Conference has the principal responsibility for the maintenance of our world services, and it traditionally has the final decision respecting large matters of general policy and finance.  But the Conference also recognizes that the chief initiative and the active responsibility in most of these matters should be exercised primarily by the Trustee members of the Conference when they act among themselves as the General Service Board of Alcoholics Anonymous. -  AA Service Manual,  pg. 26

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The Mondex Group is the best Group in AA  

We are a small group that have gotten to know each other.  We are there for each other in times of need and in times of  celebration.  Not only in times of sobriety need, but in times of friendship, also  .  We travel together to meetings, we help each other with home projects, and we pool party  together in the summer.  

 Being active with a group helps me to never feel alone.  And my group knows me well enough to say,  anything, and me to them. It’s almost like having a group full of sponsors or a group full of sponcees.  I’m pleased I have connected with people just like me.   God is good!

 MONDEX NOTE:  Starting in April, the eating meeting (last Tuesday of the month). we will eat at 6:30. PM  And have a meeting at 7PM.    Old eating time was 6. 

 

The Adventures of Clara T.

Grapevine:  Volume 55 Issue 6 (November 1998)


 

 

LEARN from the mistakes of others--you don't live long enough to make them all yourself.      Jefferson City Weekly

Taken from: Short Takes - Grapevine - Volume 5; Issue 12, May 1949

 

 

Service Group Meeting Schedules

InterGroup  1st Monday of the month 7:00 P.M. Florida Hospital Flagler, Lind Education Center

District 22  last Monday of the month 6:30 P.M. Florida Hospital Flagler, Classroom D, Lind Education Center GSR's in attendance are entered in a FREE Grapevine raffle & entitled to 10 FREE Beginners Packets.

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Interested in bringing a meeting to The Stewart Marchman Re-hab Facility? Please contact The Treatment Chairperson, Annie at 986-3067

 

Group Secretaries';  please have your celebrant info in to Peter F. at  Peter@ThePromises.info  or 446-8801 by the 15th of odd months to insure inclusion in The Promises.

Please have any and all announcements, articles, personal stories, etc., into Sally S. by June 15, 2006 to be included in the July/August printing.   Promises Editor:  Sally S., email:  Sally@ThePromises.info

Don't You Believe in Your Automobile?

Grapevine:  Volume 12 Issue 1, June 1955


THERE are many definitions of faith, but the one I like best is: "Faith is the believing after all reasoning has been exhausted."

As newcomers we look for faith in the AA program and it doesn't take much to enkindle faith when we see the many happy, smiling faces of our fellow-members from day to day. When we see the results from this new way of life, then we can have faith. During our drinking career many of us lost faith in ourselves, in mankind, in God, but fortunately there remains the spark of faith within us all. . . .

Perhaps you are the owner of an automobile. During the course of the day you take a jaunt into town. Upon approaching an intersection you see a red light and automatically your foot presses the brake pedal and the auto comes to a halt. This is a simple act of faith. Why? First, it is likely you haven't the slightest idea how hydraulic brakes operate; or the laws governing momentum; or the theory of friction; yet, with complete confidence, you assume your automobile will stop when you apply pressure to that brake pedal. Why? Is it not your faith in that braking system?

Let's take the incidence of your last severe illness. No doubt you summoned a doctor. He examined you and prescribed medication or perhaps you underwent surgery which he advised. Your knowledge of anatomy, physiology, pharmacology, pathology, and surgery may be nil--yet, with complete faith you did what the doctor advised. Perhaps he could have made a mistake, yet you had complete confidence in his findings.   Is this not faith?

Examine the single act of retiring at night. Do you close your eyes and enter the arms of Morpheus with assurance that you will awaken unharmed in the morning; or do you prop your eyelids open with toothpicks to assure yourself that no one will steal you, kill you, or burn the house during the night? Faith?

I hope you now acknowledge the faith that is in you and everyone of us.

P.S. If you have read down to this line, then you must have faith.

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