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The Sixes
Step Six:
Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of
character.
Tradition Six: Problems of money, property, and authority may easily divert
us from our primary spiritual aim. We think, therefore, that any considerable
property of genuine use to A.A. should be separately incorporated and managed,
thus dividing the material from the spiritual. An A.A. group, as such, should
never go into business. Secondary aids to A.A., such as clubs or hospitals,
which require much property or administration, ought to be incorporated and so
set a part that, if necessary, they can be freely discarded by the groups.
Hence such facilities ought not to use the A.A. name. Their management should
be the sole responsibility of those people who financially support them. For
clubs, A.A. managers are usually preferred. But hospitals, as well as other
places of recuperation, ought to be well out side A.A. – and medically
supervised. While an A.A. group may cooperate with anyone, such cooperation
ought never to go so far as affiliation or endorsement, actual or implied. An
A.A. group can bind itself to no one.
Concept Six: “The Conference recognizes that the chief initiative and active
responsibility in most world service matters should be executed by the trustee
members of the Conference acting as the General Service Board.”
Sixth Step Reflections
Time to grow up and stop the blame game
My character defects were hidden behind all those hurts and injustices
I’d saved up through the years and which I regularly brought out and relived
with all the original emotion. Not only that, I accumulated any and every new
hurt, real or imagined. In fact I took a perverse pleasure from felling sad
and self-pitying.
I was giving power to people who were long gone.
Then I realized that these people gave me my favorite excuses for why I
did what I did or couldn’t do what I should have been doing. I used them to
justify my actions and blamed them for my failures.
Every time something went wrong in my life or I failed to live up to some
responsibility, I took out the list of abuses I’d suffered and used it as an
excuse. I became very adept at hiding my guilt behind these real or imagined
hurts. I was a classic victim.
The problem with blaming my frustrations and failures on what others did
to me is that it kept me small. I stayed a little boy trapped in a man’s body
– a self-centered, selfish little boy – who expected people to live up to his
fantasies of them and got hurt when they didn’t cater to every want and whim.
Although I made a Third Step decision, I couldn’t really turn my life and
will over to my Higher Power because it didn’t belong to me.
Unknowingly, over the years, I’d turned my will over to all those people
whom I felt had injured me in some way.’
Fortunately, I reached a point where I was choking on all this garbage.
With the help of my Higher Power and the A.A. program, I chose to grow up.
It was about time! I opened up the imaginary closet in my mind where I
kept these well-nurtured hurts and tossed them into my past where they
belonged.
Into this newly cleaned out space, I started storing my goals and the
hopes and dream of what I wanted to achieve in life. Now instead of looking
backward into the dreariness of my past, I’m looking forward to a bright
future because I’ve finally taken responsibility for my life.
Roger H.
via, Your Dayton, Ohio Intergroup Newsletter
Consumption of alcohol may make you think you can logically converse with
other members of the opposite sex without spitting.
Ron L.
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CENTRAL OFFICE IS MOVING!
On June 17, 2006, we will be moving into Suite 107 at the same business
complex. We are going to be next door to Landon Realty (the front part of the
building), in the breezeway.
Our address and telephone number will be: see below.
Many Thanks To. . .
Vito M. for helping to design the new office space,
to Sam D. and his
L.C.M.G crew for the physical help of relocating everything,
to Nick P. for
his finish carpentry, and to Jeff H. for his painting.
Your Central Office has open office shifts and call forwarding shifts.
Call Craig at 760-242-9292 to be of service.
We also need folks for the Twelve Step lists for all areas.
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HOW CAN I HELP?
You can help us update our mailing lists!
Some of you may not wish to
receive the newsletter or you may need to update your address.
Others who receive “bulk” mailings for your meetings or groups, may be getting either
too many or not enough.
Whatever the circumstances are, PLEASE take a few
minutes to
PRINT THIS FORM
, FILL IT OUT and MAIL TO:
BETTY B.
Victor Valley Intergroup, Central Office, Inc.
18888 Outer Hwy. 18, Suite 107
Apple Valley, CA 92307
It will take only a few minutes, and it will help us tremendously.
Thank you
for your effort.
Betty B., Editor
**APATHY
Lack of emotion; Lack of interest; listless condition; unconcern;
indifference.
Or, as yours truly sees it:
1. Seeing something that needs to be done;
2. Knowing something needs to be done;
3. And still refusing to help fix
the problem.
Betty B., Editor
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