Year: 2022

If you like reading “Daily Reflections”, but the book slipped behind your night table, our website now offers another way to read it! Go to the bottom of any page (web geeks call this the “page footer”), and click on “Daily Reflections”. You will be redirected to the World Services Daily Reflections page, and today’s Reflection. From there you will also be able to pick any Daily Reflection of the year.

Would you like to help Central Office be just as effective as it can be? Intergroup, Central Office’s governing body, will have elections for the Central Office Steering Committee on Sunday, December 11. Positions to be elected include the Chair, Treasurer, Intergroup Liaison, Community Outreach, Accessibilities, Newsletter Editor, and Media Librarian. Each position is described on the Nominations and Elections Fact Sheet. This is an outstanding opportunity for service.

Pass It On, the newsletter of the Albuquerque A.A. Intergroup, has been revived by editor Steven G.

We will link to the monthly Pass It On here at the website. You may read and/or download the November Pass It On here.

Along the top of the page, you’ll see that there’s a “Pass It On” item to the right of “About A.A.”. Clicking there will take you to a list of all recently-published editions of Pass It On.

The General Service Office of Alcoholics Anonymous is asking for stories to be considered for inclusion in the 5th Edition of the English-language and the 4th Edition of the Spanish-language Big Book.

The Preface to the Second Edition of the Big Book explains that revisions to the personal history section of the book were made in order “to represent the current membership of Alcoholics Anonymous more accurately, and thereby to reach more Alcoholics.” In that spirit, the 2021 General Service Conference recommended that “a Fifth Edition of the Big Book, Alcoholics Anonymous, be developed, including an update of stories to better reflect the current membership, keeping in mind the 1995 Advisory Action:

“The first 164 pages of the Big Book, Alcoholics Anonymous, the Preface, the Forewords, ‘The Doctor’s Opinion’, ‘Dr. Bob’s Nightmare”, and the Appendices remain as is.”

In response to the 2021 General Service Conference Advisory Action requesting the development of a Fifth edition of the book Alcoholics Anonymous, the trustees’ Literature Committee is seeking a wide range of A.A. recovery experience of members in the Fellowship. The trustees’ Literature Committee is searching for recovery stories of our members for possible inclusion in the Fifth Edition which are from a broad cross-section of our local communities, all stories are of value. As Bill writes on page 29 of the book Alcoholics Anonymous: “Our hope is that many alcoholic men and women, desperately in need, will see these pages, and we believe that it is only by fully disclosing ourselves and our problems that they will persuaded to say, ‘Yes, I am one of them too; I must have this thing.’”
It is the Literature Committee’s shared hope that any new stories from our current membership will help future alcoholics to identify and find recovery in the pages of a Fifth edition. The suggested format for typed manuscripts is 3500 words, double spaced, in 12-point font. Handwritten manuscripts should be approximately 5 to 6 pages.

Instructions for submitting your story (English language) may be found at this website.

A.A. World Services tells us of an error in recently-printed English-language editions of the book Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions. The Spanish- and French-language editions do not have this error.

According to them, “Due to a typographical error, the text of the Long Form of Tradition Eight was inadvertently repeated in the Long Form of Tradition Nine (page 177) in this edition. The accurate full text of Tradition Nine (Long Form) appears on page 178.”

The full statement regarding the printing error may be found here.