Let us not be discouraged. Let us cleanse our minds of delusion. Let us rid ourselves willingly of hate, and put love within ourselves and join together with renewed faith in our Creator...And not forget the future of our children and those yet to come.

David Monongye  Hopi

Today we in A.A. are together, and we know we are going to stay together. We are at peace with each other and with the world around us. So many of our conflicts are resolved that our destiny seems secure. The problems of yesterday have produced the blessings of today.

Ours is not the usual success story; rather it is the story of how, under God's grace, an unsuspected strength has arisen out of great weakness; of how, under threats of disunity and collapse, world-wide unity and brotherhood have been forged. In the course of this experience we have evolved a set of traditional principals by which we live and work together and relate ourselves as a fellowship to the world around us. These principals are called the Twelve Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous. They represent the distilled experience of our past, and we rely on them to carry us in unity through the challenges and dangers which the future may bring.

"AA Comes of Age"   pg. 79

Grandfather help us to remember that the group is stronger than the individual. Let us remember the next generation.

 Grandfather took me to the still waters and he told me to throw a stone into the water. He told me to watch the circles created by the stone. Then he asked me to think of myself as that stone person. "You will create lots of splashes in your life and the waves that come from those splashes will effect all your relations," he said. "Remember that you are responsible for what you put in your circle and that circle will also touch many other circles. You will need to live in a good way that allows the good from your circle to send the peace of that goodness to others." It felt warm and good inside knowing that my inner peace will flow out into the world. Knowing that I radiate the good feelings and thoughts that I hold inside, whether I speak them or not. Whatever splashes around inside of me will spill out into the world …expanding…ever expanding, creating beauty with all other circles of life…