A.A. Monterey Newsletter

Published on 12/16/2021

Step 12 – “Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we tried to carry the message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.” Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions – Page 106 “Still more wonderful is the feeling that we do not have to be specially distinguished among […]

Published on 11/22/2021

Step 11 – “Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for his will for us and the power to carry that out.” Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions – Page 96 “There is a direct linkage among self-examination, meditation, and prayer. Taken separately, these practices […]

Published on 10/19/2021

Step 10 – “Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.” Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions – Page 88 “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 find ourselves getting […]

Published on 09/24/2021

Step 9 – “Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.” Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions – Page 83 Good Judgement, a careful sense of timing, courage, and prudence – these are the qualities we shall need when we take Step Nine. After we have […]

Published on 08/19/2021

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 “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 […]

Published on 07/27/2021

Step 7 – “Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.” Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions – Page 63 “When we have finally admitted without reservation that we are powerless over alcohol, we are apt to breathe a great sigh of relief, saying, “Well thank God that’s over! I’ll never have to go through that again!”  […]

Published on 06/09/2021

Step 6 – “Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.” Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions – Page 63 “Having been granted a perfect release from alcoholism, why then shouldn’t we be able to achieve by the same means a perfect release from every other difficulty or defect?  This is a […]

Published on 05/28/2021

Step 5 – “Admitted to God, to ourselves, and another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.” Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions – Page 55 Somehow, being alone with god doesn’t seem as embarrassing  as facing up to another person. Until we actually sit down and talk aloud  about what we have so long […]

Published on 04/22/2021

Step 4 – “Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.” “Once we have placed the key of willingness in the lock and have the door ever so slightly open, we find that we can open it some more.” Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions – Page 42 “Why is it that the alcoholic is […]

Published on 03/23/2021

Step 3 – “Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood him.” “Once we have placed the key of willingness in the lock and have the door ever so slightly open, we find that we can open it some more.” Twelve Steps and Twelve […]