A.A. Monterey Newsletter

Published on 10/22/2022

Step 10 – “Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.” “A continuous look at our assets and liabilities, and a real desire to learn and grow by this means, are necessities for us.  We alcoholics have learned this the hard way.  More experienced people, of course, in all times […]

Published on 09/22/2022

Step 9 – “Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.” “As soon as we begin to feel confident in our new way of life and have begun, by our behavior and example, to, convince those about us that we are indeed changing for the […]

Published on 08/18/2022

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 may perform with increasing skill, but never really finish. Learning how to live in the greatest peace, partnership, and brotherhood with all […]

Published on 07/25/2022

Step 7 – “Humbly asked him to remove our shortcomings” “Certainly no alcoholic, and surely no member of A.A. wants to deprecate material achievement.  Nor do we enter into debate with the many who still so passionately cling to the belief that to satisfy our basic natural desires is the main object of life.  But […]

Published on 06/23/2022

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

Published on 05/19/2022

Step 5 – “Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.” “So intense, though is our fear and reluctance to do this, that many A.A.’s at first try to bypass Step Five.  We search for an easier way – which usually consists of the general and fairly […]

Published on 04/20/2022

Step 4 – “Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.” “It is when we try to make our will conform with God’s that we begin to use it rightly.  To all of us, this was a most wonderful revelation.  Our whole trouble had been the misuse of willpower.  We had tried to bombard […]

Published on 03/17/2022

Step 3 – “Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.” “It is when we try to make our will conform with God’s that we begin to use it rightly. To all of us, this was a most wonderful revelation. Our whole trouble […]

Published on 02/17/2022

Step 2 – “Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.” Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions – Page 25 “Then I woke up.  I had to admit that A.A. showed results, prodigious results.  I saw my attitude regarding these had been anything but scientific.  It wasn’t A.A. that had […]

Published on 01/18/2022

Step 1 – “We admitted we were powerless over alcohol – that our lives had become unmanageable.” Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions – Page 21 “Who cares to admit complete defeat?  Practically no one, of course.  Every natural instinct cries out against the idea of personal powerlessness.  It is truly awful to admit that, glass […]