
Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship designed and administered by a bunch of ex drunks whose only qualifications for membership are they can’t hold their liquor and don’t want to learn how. It has no dues or fees nor anything else that any sensible organization seems to require. At the meetings the speaker starts on one subject and winds up talking about something entirely different and concludes by saying he doesn’t know anything about the program except that it works.
The groups are always broke, yet always seem to grow. They claim A.A. is a selfish program, but always seem to be doing something for others. Every group passes laws, rules, edicts, and pronouncements which everyone blithely ignores; members who disagree with anything are privileged to walk out in a huff, quitting forever, only to return as though nothing has happened and be greeted accordingly. Nothing is ever planned 24 hours ahead yet great projects are born and survive magnificently. Nothing in A.A. is according to Hoyle. How can it survive ???
Perhaps it’s because we have learned to live and laugh at ourselves. God made man. He made laughter too. Perhaps He is pleased with our disorganized efforts and makes things right, no matter who pushes the wrong button. Maybe He is pleased with our trying to be nobody but ourselves.
We don’t know how it work s, but it does and members keep receiving their dividend cheques from their A.A. Investments. It is smart to be sober, and it is much easier, my friends, to stay
sober than to get sober.
YES.....Its smart to stay sober!