Our Common Welfare Should Come First

Personal recovery depends upon AA unity…

I’ve just offered Mary Christine this comment based on an entry she posted yesterday. There are no coincidences! I’d been considering this topic anyway

It seems MC and an AA friend share a common concern about another AA member who appears to be doing something that is “tearing him apart.” MC’s friend was told “sharply” (by whom I perceive to be other members of this AA group) that “its none of our business!” Really? I mean REALLY???

Hi MC,

Today I can have a opinion

I too have experience with this nature of dilemma and I believe it ought not be a dilemma for one huge reason. Working a program of recovery has reintroduced me to a loving God that I didn’t know was loving. That loving God allows me to make mistakes.

If, by paying attention to this person’s perceived troubles, I am mistaken, God will sort it out. I’d rather make this “mistake” because there’s a chance a life may depend on it!

3 and 11! Liz B. taught me to make 3 and 11 my decision makers. I’ll turn this mistake over to God and pray for knowledge of His will on it every time!

It is also my opinion that those who told your friend “it’s none of our business” have completely forgotten the First Tradition.

“Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon AA unity.”

Where the he** is the unity in “it’s none of our business” when another alkies’ life is at stake?

Of course, this is only mho…

Mark