"Prayer is the best answer to all of the trials that face us, because without prayer, even if we succeed in accomplishing some great goal in the eyes of men, we have failed in our sacred responsibilities, and thus we have failed in what is truly important."

Thomas Yellowtail  Crow

We A.A.'s are active folk, enjoying the satisfactions of dealing with the realities of life, usually for the first time in our lives, and strenuously trying to help the next alcoholic who comes along. So it isn't surprising that we often tend to slight serious meditation and prayer as something not really necessary. To be sure, we feel it is something that might help us to meet an occasional emergency, but at first many of us are apt to regard it as a somewhat mysterious skill of clergymen, from which we may hope to get a secondhand benefit. Or perhaps we don't believe in these things at all.

Twelve Steps & Twelve Traditions  pg. 96

 
 
Now, what about prayer? Prayer is the raising of the heart and mind to God--and in this sense it includes meditation.

Twelve Steps & Twelve Traditions  pg. 102

Creator remind us of our sacred duties.