Meeting Information

Zoom Meeting (954-469-573)

The meeting will begin at 12:00AM EST every night and lasts for 1 hour. The Zoom meeting opens 30 minutes beforehand for fellowship and chat.

  • On Mondays, we have a 5 minute meditation to open and close the meeting;

  • On Tuesdays, we have a Step and Tradition meeting where we discuss the Steps and on the last Tuesday of each month we discuss the corresponding Tradition for that month.

  • On Wednesdays, our meeting is 2 hours with a 75 minute meditation to open the meeting followed by tag sharing. 

  • On Fridays, we have a Guest Speaker Meeting where we invite an AA to share their story for 30 minutes.   That meeting is seventy-five (75) minutes; on the third Friday when we hold our business meeting, it will be sixty (60) minutes. 

  • On Saturdays, our meeting is a Speaker meeting. One of our Homegroup members opens with a 15 minute share and chooses a topic. This meeting is seventy-five (75) minutes.

If you need attendance validation please send us an email during the meeting. If you do not email during the meeting there is no way to validate attendance.

Email: whenweretireatnightaa@gmail.com

Zoom Meeting Link

Announcements

ANNIVERSARY CHIPS:

If you are celebrating 90 days or more and would like a chip mailed to you, send an e-mail

TO: whenweretire.anniversarychips@gmail.com

SUBJECT: # days, months, years you're celebrating

INCLUDE: Name, mailing address, sobriety date and your chip will be on its way!

 

BIRTHDAYS:

Also, the last Sunday of each month is our Annual Sobriety Celebration meeting. Join us if you've celebrated an annual birthday this month and would like to share. We would love to celebrate this milestone with you! Celebrants share first!

- The last Sunday of each month will be changed to Annual Sobriety Celebration in the calendar and will be chaired by a member of the committee.

 

Safety Committee Mission Statement: 

In an attempt to maintain group unity during the meeting and keep recovery our primary purpose, the Safety committee is designed to help WWRAN members virtually open a line of communication to address minor concerns and/or disruptive behaviors. After first discussing any concerning issues from the meeting with your sponsor, please contact us at WWRANopenline@gmail.com

From A.A. literature titled Safety and A.A.: Our Common Welfare. What can groups and members do?:   "A.A. members who are concerned about the words or actions of a sponsor or other member, may find it helpful to speak to someone they trust, their A.A. group, or a professional, as needed" .… "In all discussions about safety, keep the focus on our primary purpose, our common welfare, and place principles before personalities.

The 12 Steps

Big Book - Page 59

  1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.
  2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
  3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
  4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
  5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
  6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
  7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
  8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
  9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
  10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
  11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
  12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

When We Retire at Night

Big Book - Page 86

When we retire at night, we constructively review our day. Were we resentful, selfish, dishonest or afraid? Do we owe an apology? Have we kept something to ourselves which should be discussed with another person at once? Were we kind and loving toward all? What could we have done better? Were we thinking of ourselves most of the time? Or were we thinking of what we could do for others, of what we could pack into the stream of life? But we must be careful not to drift into worry, remorse or morbid reflection, for that would diminish our usefulness to others. After making our review we ask God's forgiveness and inquire what corrective measures should be taken.

11th Step Prayer

12 Steps & 12 Traditions - Page 99

Lord, make me a channel of Thy peace; that where there is hatred, I may bring love; that where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness; that where there is discord, I may bring harmony; that where there is error, I may bring truth; that where there is doubt, I may bring faith; that where there is despair, I may bring hope; that where there are shadows, I may bring light. that where there is sadness, I may bring joy. Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort, than to be comforted; to understand, than to be understood; to love, than to be loved. For it is by self forgetting, that one finds. It is by forgiving, that one is forgiven. It is by dying, that one awakens to Eternal Life. Amen.