Alcoholics Anonymous World Services

Thank you to all the PEOPLE who do service below the group level here at the General Service Office. Your service is recognized and appreciated by this Grateful Recovering Alcoholic. Many Alcoholics and non-alcoholics do not realize that any updates to things like the Big Book and AA preamble actually take months even years of discussions between the GSR's the groups, and back to the local or regional GSO offices before changes can actually be voted on and implemented. Even so the group still holds the right to participate or not participate by either implementing or not implementing the changes as is their group conscious. I for my part want to say the GSO is doing... read full review

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If a moral code or philosophy of life were sufficient to overcome alcoholism, many of us might have recovered long ago.
But we have found that no amount of moral codes or philosophies help, no matter how hard we try.
We could turn to morality or find solace in philosophy, but neither had the necessary power, no matter how much we longed for it.
Our internal reserves, led by will, turned out to be insufficient; for them it was an impossible task.
Lack of strength - that was our dilemma.
We needed to find a force that would guide us in life, and this Force had to be more powerful than ourselves.
This is completely obvious.
But... read full review