One Last Meeting At The Congregational Church

The Steppin Up AA group has been meeting at the First Congregational church in Bellevue since it started 22 years ago.   Tonight was the last meeting for the group at that location.  The church is in the process of selling the property to a developer.  The want groups to carry there own insurance in the future.  SU decided to move to a less expensive location now as opposed to some random time in the future when they got booted by the new owners.

Tonight’s meeting was on the 12^th tradition: Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.

One way I practice anonymity is not putting my name on this blog.  The NSA or any other reasonably computer literate person could figure out who I am just as people could figure out who was at a meeting by checking cars in the parking lot.  We are anonymous, not top secret.

I greatly appreciate how important principles are in AA.  As a child, rules were arbitrarily and capriciously made and enforced.  There was a terrible sense of unfairness.  AA is extremely fair.  For all of us, to drink is to die.  The only questions about guideline is how long it will take and how painful it would be.

I am grateful for AA’s 12 traditions and that the Steppin Up group studies a tradition every month.  It has been a good homegroup to me for the last 8 years.