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Issue 00512 |
April 5-11, 2008 |
issn 0856 - 9135 |
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New pattern of living
by John B "We have learned from our group experience that those who keep coming to our meetings regularly stay clean." The Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) program gives us a new pattern of living. One of the basic elements of that new pattern is regular meeting attendance. For new comer, living clean is a brand new experience. All that once was familiar is changed. The old people, places, and things that served as props on the stage of our lives are gone. New stresses appear, no longer masked or deadened by drugs. That’s why we often suggest that newcomers attend a meeting every day. No matter what comes up, no matter how crazy the day gets, we know that our daily meeting awaits us. There, we can renew contact with other recovering addicts, people who know what we’re going through because they’ve been through it themselves. No day needs to go by without the relief we get only from such fellowship. As we mature in recovery, we get age same kinds of benefits from regular meeting attendance. Regardless of how long we’ve been clean, we never stop being addicts. True. We probably won’t immediately start using mass quantities of drugs if we miss our meetings for a few days. But the more regularly we attend AA meetings, the more we reinforce our identity as recovering addicts. And each meeting helps put us that much further from becoming using addicts again. * The Arusha Community Church: - AA Swahili meetings on Saturdays at 10.00am - AA English meetings on Tuesdays at 1.00pm - NA Swahili meetings on Mondays and Thursdays at 5.00pm. * The Monduli Roman Catholic Church: - AA Swahili meetings on Saturdays at 4.00pm - AA English meetings on Mondays and Wednesdays at 3.30pm Someone will be available to speak about Alcohol/Drug related problems at 4.00pm at the AA - Monduli Roman Catholic Church or by appointment. For further information, Call: John (AA) 0754 428 677 or Frank (NA) 0755 900 119 or Email: olwasi@yahoo.com
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