The Trail Group Celebrates 39 Years
When:
Tuesday – October 30, 2016 – Doors open at 6:00 pm, Eat at 6:30 pm
Where:
Zion United Methodist Church
2600 Copland Boulevard
Toledo, OH 43614
Venue:
The Trail Group invites you to join us in celebrating 39 years of AA meetings. Please bring an appetizer or dessert to share. A gratitude meeting will follow the party.
Map Directions:
The Spiritual Alibi
Our first attempts at inventories are apt to prove very unrealistic. I used to be a champ at unrealistic self-appraisal. On certain occasions, I wanted to look only at the part of my life which seemed good. Then I would greatly exaggerate whatever virtues I supposed I had attained. Next I would congratulate myself on the grand job I was doing in A.A. Naturally this generated a terrible hankering for still more “accomplishments,” and still more approval. I was falling straight back into the pattern of my drinking days. Here were the same old goals – power, fame, and applause. Besides, I had the best alibi known – the spiritual alibi. The fact that I really did have a spiritual objective made this utter nonsense seem perfectly right.
Out of the Dark
Self-searching is the means by which we bring new vision, action, and grace to bear upon the dark and negative side of our natures. With it comes the development of that kind of humility that makes it possible for us to receive God’s help. Yet it is only a step. We will want to go further. We will want the good that is in us all, even in the worst of us, to flower and to grow. But first of all we shall want sunlight; nothing much can grow in the dark. Meditation is our step out into the sun.
1. Twelve and Twelve, page 98