My word today is service. Some say it's my middle name. Bill W once said that service, as AA uses it, is anything that makes a twelfth step possible. The twelfth step being to carry the message to the alcoholic who still suffers. That can mean putting a meeting on in detox or at a shelter for homeless or displaced persons, talking to somebody about AA, setting up chairs at a meeting, shaking someone's hand, being a committee chair or being a sponsor, making coffee at a meeting, the list goes on and on.
Not meant to be a brag, but just as an example. Currently, I am District Committee Member, I am chair of the 2026 Midwinter Roundup committee, I serve as a corrections correspondent, I sponsor about a dozen persons, I bake cookies and bring them to various meetings, and when I go to my home group, I usually help set up the meeting. None of those commitments is any more important than the other. They are all ways to be of service, all are ways to carry the message.
I have been sober since November of 1997 and I have been doing service since November of 1997. I think the two are connected.
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