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Tuesday Meeting Opening:<\/span><\/h1>\n

The Opening reading used to start our\u00a0<\/em>regular Tuesday meeting.<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n
\n

Hello, I’m _____________, and I’m grateful to be your Al-Anon chair today.<\/p>\n

This is the opening for the regular Tuesday meeting at A Serenity Place.<\/p>\n

May we all please observe a moment of silence to reflect on why we are here.<\/p>\n

Would all those who care to please join me in opening with the Serenity Prayer:<\/p>\n

\nGod, grant me the serenity
\nTo accept the things I cannot change,
\nCourage to change the things I can,
\nand wisdom to know the difference.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We welcome you to A Serenity Place online Al-Anon meeting and hope you will
\nfind in this fellowship the help and friendship we have been privileged to
\nenjoy.<\/p>\n

We who live, or have lived, with the problem of alcoholism understand as
\nperhaps few others can. We, too, were lonely and frustrated, but in Al-Anon
\nwe discover that no situation is really hopeless, and that it is possible
\nfor us to find contentment, and even happiness, whether the alcoholic is
\nstill drinking or not.<\/p>\n

We urge you to try our program. It has helped many of us find solutions that
\nlead to serenity. So much depends on our own attitudes, and as we learn to
\nplace our problem in its true perspective, we find it loses its power to
\ndominate our thoughts and our lives.<\/p>\n

The family situation is bound to improve as we apply the Al-Anon ideas.
\nWithout such spiritual help, living with an alcoholic is too much for most
\nof us. Our thinking becomes distorted by trying to force solutions, and we
\nbecome irritable and unreasonable without knowing it.<\/p>\n

The Al-Anon program is based on the suggested Twelve Steps of Alcoholics
\nAnonymous, which we try, little by little, one day at a time, to apply to
\nour lives along with our slogans and the Serenity Prayer. The loving
\ninterchange of help among members and daily reading of Al-Anon literature
\nthus make us ready to receive the priceless gift of serenity.<\/p>\n

Al-Anon is an anonymous fellowship. Everything that is said here, in the
\ngroup meeting and member-to-member, must be held in confidence. Only in this
\nway can we feel free to say what is on our minds and in our hearts, for this
\nis how we help one another in Al-Anon.<\/p>\n

THE TWELVE TRADITIONS<\/strong>
\n————————————–<\/p>\n

The Traditions that follow bind us together in unity. They guide the groups
\nin their relations with other groups, with AA and the outside world. They
\nrecommend group attitudes toward leadership, membership, money, property,
\npublic relations and anonymity. The Traditions evolved from the experience
\nof AA groups in trying to solve their problems of living and working together.<\/p>\n

Al-Anon adopted these group guidelines, and over the years has found them
\nsound and wise. Although they are only suggestions, Al-Anon’s unity and
\nperhaps even its survival are dependent on adherence to these principles.<\/p>\n

1. Our common welfare should come first; personal progress for the greatest
\nnumber depends upon unity.
\n2. For our group purpose there is but one authority, a loving God as He may
\nexpress Himself in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted
\nservants; they do not govern.
\n3. The relatives of alcoholics, when gathered together for mutual aid, may
\ncall themselves an Al-Anon Family Group, provided that, as a group, they
\nhave no other affiliation. The only requirement for membership is that there
\nbe a problem of
\nalcoholism in a relative or friend.
\n4. Each group should be autonomous, except in matters affecting another
\ngroup or Al-Anon or AA as a whole.
\n5. Each Al-Anon Family Group has but one purpose: to help families of
\nalcoholics. We do this by practicing the Twelve Steps of AA ourselves, by
\nencouraging and understanding
\nour alcoholic relatives, and by welcoming and giving comfort to families of
\nalcoholics.
\n6. Our Al-Anon Family Groups ought never endorse, finance or lend our name
\nto any outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property and prestige
\ndivert us from our primary spiritual aim. Although a separate entity, we
\nshould always cooperate with Alcoholics Anonymous.
\n7. Every Group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside
\ncontributions.
\n8. Al-Anon Twelfth-Step work should remain forever non-professional, but our
\nservice centers may employ special workers.
\n9. Our Groups, as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service
\nboards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.
\n10. The Al-Anon Family Groups have no opinion on outside issues; hence our
\nname ought never be drawn into public controversy.
\n11. Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than
\npromotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press,
\nradio, TV and films. We need guard with special care the anonymity of all AA
\nmembers.
\n12. Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our Traditions, ever
\nreminding us to place principles above personalities.<\/p>\n

\n

Revised: 8\/23\/96<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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