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       About AA and AA Grapevine

Preface

      The forty-two articles in this book are reprinted from AA Grapevine magazine, the Fellowship’s monthly “meeting in print.” Written by AA members out of their own experience, they illuminate the many facets of the AA home group.

      When we first began to narrow down a selection of material, we were using as a working title, “The Home Group: Key to Unity.” Yet in the process of rereading the articles, the need for a broader concept became clear. The home group is where recovery begins; it is where AA members grow up in sobriety by the time-honored process of trial and error, to discover that they can be loved, “warts and all.” It is where they learn to put the needs of others, especially the needs of the group, ahead of their own desires. It is where they first have the opportunity to serve others, and where they learn of opportunities to serve beyond the group. It is where they begin to adopt the guiding principles of Alcoholics Anonymous as working realities in their own sober lives.

      Because this book seeks to illuminate the AA group of today with its unique characteristics, strengths, and problems, most of the articles that follow were chosen from Grapevines published in the 1980s and 1990s. The few older articles are those that state timeless principles or that reflect customs and insights from earlier AA times that add a valuable dimension to present-day situations.

      — THE EDITORIAL STAFF

Foreword to the Second Edition

      Originally created, as one of the founding editors put it, to “promote harmony among groups,” AA Grapevine has been a forum where AA members can discover how other groups set up meetings, help newcomers, and make themselves of service to AA at large since 1944. The first edition of this book, published in 1993, СКАЧАТЬ