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05-24-2014, 07:43 AM | #6 |
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In spite of us
A friend sent this to me a few weeks ago.
And it seems to fit here for some reason. "Please, Lord, teach us to laugh again; but God, don't ever let us forget that we cried." --BILL WILSON IN SPITE OF US Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship designed and administered by a bunch of ex-drunks whose only qualification for membership is that they can't hold their liquor and don't want to learn how. It has no rules, dues or fees, no anything else that any sensible organization seems to require. At meetings the speaker starts on one subject and winds up talking about something entirely different and concludes by saying he doesn't know anything about the program, except that it works. The groups are always broke, yet always seem to have money to carry on. They are always losing members, but seem to grow. They claim AA is a selfish program, but always seem to be doing something for others. Every group passes laws, rules, edicts, and pronouncements which everyone blithely ignores. Members who disagree with anything are priveleged to walk out in a huff, quitting forever, only to return as if nothing happened and greeted accordingly. Nothing is ever planned 24 hours ahead, yet great projects are born and survive magnificently. Nothing in AA is according to Hoyle. How can it survive? Perhaps it is because we have learned to live and laugh at ourselves. God made man and He made woman. He made laughter too. Perhaps He is pleased with our disorganized efforts and makes things right no matter who pushes the button. Maybe He is pleased, not with our perfection, but with our sincerity. Maybe He is pleased with our trying to be nobody but ourselves. We don't know how it works but it does and members keep receiving their dividend checks from their AA investments. It is smart to be sober, and it is much easier, my friends, to STAY sober than to GET sober. SOMEHOW IT WORKS FOLKS, IN SPITE OF US -- KEEP COMING BACK! -- - - - - - - - - - - - - The humor description letter posted was written in Danbury, Connecticut, around 1956 by 2 (now Deceased) members of A A. It was originally entitled, "A A Odity." The 2 members were Bill Mcdonugh, and Bill Starberd, and was written as they were fooling around with a typewriter that Mcdonough was required to learn to operate for his new job. |
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