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Area 1, Alabama Northwest Florida
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 Steps, Traditions and Concepts 
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This is the Poem that sat on Dr. Bob's desk up till the end.
Humility is perpetual quietness of heart.
It is to have no trouble. It is never to be angry or irritable,
To wonder at nothing that is done to me,
To feel nothing that is done against me.
It is to be at rest when nobody praises me, and
when I am blamed or despised.
It is to have a blessed home in myself
where I can go in and shut the door and kneel
to my father in secret and be at peace,
as in a deep sea of calmness
when all around and about is seeming trouble.
 

       

 
  “Our Twelfth Step—carrying the message—is the basic service that the A.A. Fellowship gives; this is our principal aim and the main reason for our existence. Therefore, A.A. is more than a set of principles; it is a society of alcoholics in action. We must carry the message, else we ourselves can wither and those who haven’t been given the truth may die. Hence, an A.A. service is anything whatever that helps us to reach a fellow sufferer—ranging all the way from the Twelfth Step itself to a ten-cent phone call and a cup of coffee, and to A.A.’s General Service Office for national and international action. The sum total of all these services is our Third Legacy of Service.
Services include meeting places, hospital cooperation, and intergroup offices; they mean pamphlets, books, and good publicity of almost every description. They call for committees, delegates, trustees, and conferences.
And, not to be forgotten, they need voluntary
money contributions from within the Fellowship.”
 
         ~ Bill W. from “A.A.’s Legacy of Service”