Creating a Sober World

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1 Peter 4:7  But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer. KJV

“I am creating a sober world.”

 

I am a grateful alcoholic. Sober only by the grace of God. My chooser was stuck on stupid and somehow, the miracle happened, and I found my way to the doors of AA.

 

That was 28 years ago, on November 14, 1982.

 

Along the way, working in prisons and treatment centers, homeless shelters and rehabs, I practiced the principles in more and more areas of my life.

 

I discovered more of the history from great AA history websites, from books by Dick B. and Mel B. and I discovered Frank N.D. Buchman and the Oxford Groups, and Keswick and the many other roots of my wonderful fellowship, at least to my way of thinking.

 

In 1986 and 1988 I helped to carry the message to the former Soviet Union with a group calling ourselves “Creating a Sober World.” (The group later disbanded, and I asked the folks who had named it if I could use the name.” I started saying this out loud to myself and later sharing this declaration with close family and recovering friends in 1990.

 

It fit what I was told is my purpose in life: To stay sober and help others (especially alcoholics)¹ to achieve sobriety.

 

Only recently have I come to realize that the idea of world changing is build into the bedrock of our wonderful fellowship.

 

To share with others what I have found out and to extend the joy of Creating A Sober World is the purpose of his web site.

 

George M. Christmas 2010

 

1. From chapter 5, of the first of edition, Alcoholics Anonymous