A.A. Monterey Newsletter

Published on 04/02/2020

Step 4 – “Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves .” Therefore, we started upon a personal inventory. This was Step Four.  A business which takes no regular inventory usually goes broke.  Taking a commercial inventory is a fact-finding and a fact-facing process.  It is an effort to discover the truth about the […]

Published on 02/25/2020

Step 2 – “Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.” As I began to understand my own powerlessness and my dependence on God, as I understand Him, I began to see that there was a life which , if I could have it, I would have chosen for […]

Published on 01/22/2020

Step 1 – “We admitted we were powerless over alcohol -that our lives had become unmanageable.” Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions.  Page 21 “It is no coincidence that the very first step mentions powerlessness; An admission of personal powerlessness over alcohol is the cornerstone of the foundation of recovery. I’ve learned that I do not […]

Published on 12/17/2019

Step 12 – “Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics and to practice these principles in all our affairs.” Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions.  Page 106 “Practically every AA member declares that no satisfaction has been deeper and no joy greater than in […]

Published on 11/27/2019

Step 11 – “Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.” Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions.  Page 97 “Those of us who have come to make regular use of prayer would […]

Published on 10/17/2019

Step 10 – “Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.” Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions.  Page 88 “We can try to stop making unreasonable demands upon those we love. We can show kindness where we had shown none. With those we dislike we can begin to practice justice and […]

Published on 09/18/2019

Step 9 – “Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, exceptwhen to do so would injure them or others.“ Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions.  Page 83 “Step Nine restores in me a feeling of belonging, not only to the human race but also to everyday world. First, the Step makes me leave the safety […]

Published on 08/20/2019

Step 8 – “Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.“ Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions.  Page 77 “As I faced the Eighth Step, everything that was required for successful completion of the previous seven Steps came together: courage, honesty, sincerity, willingness and thoroughness. I […]

Published on 07/22/2019

Step 7 – “Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.“ “The Seventh Step is where we make the change in our attitude which permits us, with humility as our guide, to move out from ourselves toward others and toward God. The whole emphasis of Step Seven is on humility. It is really saying to us […]

Published on 06/19/2019

Step 6 – “Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.“ “So Step Six is AA’s way of stating the best possible attitude one can take in order to make a beginning on this lifetime job. This does not mean that we expect all our character defects to be lifted out […]