SUNDAY MORNING  SPIRITUAL MEETING meeting 10 A.M. E.S.T. 

Topics:  What makes an Al-Anon meeting 'truly valuable to you?' and Open Spiritual topic.

I think I may use this in my Sunday Morning MIP meeting this morning folks... it's a good one! Also be thinking of some Spiritual topics... as I lost my scripts this week and will be "winging it"! LOL

November 24
ONE DAY AT A TIME IN AL-ANON

A fairly usual idea in some Al-Anon groups is that we attend meetings only to hear other people’s tragic stories – blow-by-blow descriptions that we can perhaps identify with. This is one – but only one – of Al-Anon’s functions. But when the stories are a continual rehash of the alcoholic’s misdeeds, nobody learns anything except that we all go through pretty much the same experiences. Where is the growth in that?

If I want to determine how much help a meeting can give, I should ask myself: “How many of the people here tonight have learned something new about applying Al-Anon principles? How many have given me a constructive idea to take away with me and use? This is the only measure of a truly valuable meeting.

Today’s Reminder

What I say at an Al-Anon meeting should not be a recital of the details of someone else’s faults and actions. I have come to get knowledge of how to deal with my frustrations and difficulties, and to impart what I have learned in Al-Anon to the others. Personal problems can be discussed with my sponsor or another Al-Anon friend.

“A truly valuable Al-Anon meeting is one in which we concentrate on principles, and do not discuss personalities.”

From One Day At a Time in Al-Anon, p. 329. Copyright 2002, Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters, Inc.

The website link to the group meeting room is http://www.12stepforums.net/chatroom2.html. There are other ways to join the room also. Using mIRC or other chat client, the server we are on is irc.chat4all.org, port 6667. which users will need to add to their IRC server list, and our room name (#alanonchat) to their IRC channels.