It’s finally here! After years in development, the PLAIN LANGUAGE BIG BOOK – A Tool for Reading Alcoholics Anonymous has been published. The book is available for purchase at Central O ice, or you can order directly from aa.org. This is the First Edition, First Printing of the PLBB, as it is commonly called. I purchased one for myself for personal use and I purchased one as a gift for my sponsor. I think he will enjoy reading it. I also purchased one as a gift for my sponsee. Hopefully he can make use of it in his service to A.A.
December is a month of gift-giving. For your friends in A.A., Grapevine has many thoughtful ideas. Visit their site at: https://www.aagrapevine.org/store (and they have free shipping in December).
December is also the time to receive gifts. When I think about the gift of sobriety in my life, many thoughts run through my brain. There were many years in my past when the gift of sobriety was o ered to me, but I was not willing to receive it. Now it’s a di erent story. I am grateful every day to be sober. To keep it, I try to give it away to an alcoholic who is still su ering. The Grapevine Daily Quote for November 16 sums it up for me today: “How wonderful to be sober, to be able to think clearly (at times, at least), and to become aware of some portion of the greater wisdom concealed so deeply within myself.”
Service is where the fun starts!
