A.A. Monterey Newsletter

Monterey Bay Area News – March 2025

Published on 03/28/2025

Step 3 – “Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.” “Therefore, we who are alcoholics can consider ourselves fortunate indeed. Each of us has had his own near-fatal encounter with the juggernaut of self-will, and has suffered enough under its weight to […]

MBAIAA Newsletter – February 2025

Published on 02/22/2025

Step 2 – “Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.” “The moment they read Step Two, most A.A. newcomers are confronted with a dilemma, a serious one. How often have we heard them cry out, “Look what you people have done to us! You have convinced us that […]

MBAIAA Newsletter – December 2024

Published on 12/24/2024

Step 12 – “Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we tried to carry to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.” “The joy of living is the theme of A.A.’s Twelfth Step and action is the key word. Here we turn outward toward […]

MBAIAA Newsletter – November 2024

Published on 11/29/2024

Step 11 – “Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understand as we understand Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.” “Prayer and meditation are our principal means of conscious contact with God. We AA’s are active folk, […]

MBAIAA Newsletter – October 2024

Published on 10/24/2024

Step 10 – “Continued to take personal inventory and when wrong promptly admitted it.” “Although all inventories are alike in principle, the time factor does distinguish one from another. There’s the spot-check inventory, taken at any time of the day, whenever we we find ourselves getting tangled up. There’s the one we take at day’s […]

MBAIAA Newsletter – September 2024

Published on 10/08/2024

Step 9 – “Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.” “After we have made the list of people we have harmed, have reflected carefully upon each instance, and have tried to possess ourselves of the right attitude in which to proceed, we will see […]

MBAIAA Newsletter – August 2024

Published on 08/28/2024

Step 8 – “Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.” “This is a very large order. It is a task which we nay may perform with increasing skill, but never really finish. Learning how to live in the greatest peace, partnership, and brotherhood with […]

MBAIAA Newsletter – July 2024

Published on 07/27/2024

Step 7 – “Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.” “Indeed, the attainment of greater humility is the foundation principle of each of A.A.’s Twelve Steps. For without some degree of humility, no alcoholic can stay sober at all. Nearly all A.A.’s have found, too, that unless they develop much more of this precious quality […]

MBAIAA Newsletter – June 2024

Published on 07/01/2024

Step 6 – “Were entirely ready to have god remove all these defects of character.” “This is the step that separates the men from the boys”, so declares a well-loved clergy man who happens to be one of A.A.’s greatest friends. He goes onto explain that any person capable of enough willingness and honesty to […]

MBAIAA Newsletter – May 2024

Published on 05/24/2024

Step 5 – “Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.” “This practice of admitting one’s defects to another person is, of course, very ancient. It has been validated in every century, and it characterizes the lives of all spiritually centered and truly religious people. But today […]