Service rests on the
basic premise that the nature of life is sacred, that life is a holy mystery
which has an unknown purpose. When we serve, we know that we belong to life and
to that purpose. Fundamentally, helping, fixing and service are ways of seeing
life. When you help you see life as weak, when you fix, you see life as broken.
When you serve, you see life as whole.
Rachael Naomi Remem Holistic Healer
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