One of the great things about the service roles I take on during my recovery is how much I learn. Something that’s usually common to those learnings is that it would have been helpful to learn the information even earlier.
That’s why the service roles of a General Service Representative (GSR) or Alternate General Service Representative (Alt GSR) are so great. I’ve learned a lot serving as the GSR for my home group and it’s all stuff that will help others in their recovery.
Here are some examples.
If anyone ever needs a copy of the Big Book and has a device with an internet browser, the entire text of Alcoholics Anonymous is available on aa.org.
Same goes for the calendar of Daily Reflections if you want to use them to start your day or want to reference them in a meeting.
And the literature area of the aa.org site has a searchable index of brochures and workbooks related to all service roles and associated committees, like this one on the General Service Representative role.
In short, the answers to a lot of questions I had about the unity, recovery, and service available to me were out there for the finding. I just didn’t know where to look.
As the third-legacy chair (the third legacy is service), I and others in District 36 will be reaching out to see if your group has a GSR and an Alt GSR. If not, we’ll ask how we can help get people into those roles. The motivation is to get as much knowledge and information to the members of our organization who will benefit from it (and I include myself among those beneficiaries).
Talk to you soon!
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