Serenity Break Online

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Serenity Break Online is an “open” meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous on the Internet, originally based in the Seattle area. Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of people who share their experience, strength, and hope with each other so that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism. The only requirement for AA membership is a desire to stop drinking.

We meet Monday through Saturday on Zoom. Meetings on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday are at noon Pacific time and open to all. Wednesday meetings are also at noon Pacific and are split into separate Women's and Men's groups. Saturday's meeting is at 9:00 AM Pacific and open to everyone. Details below:

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Virtual holiday meetings:
- Join us for a Holiday/Christmas Alcathon! This event will be continuous with new meetings and topics starting every hour from December 24th, at 4p EST until December 25th, at 11:59p EST. All are welcome and bring a friend! Hosted By Serenity Group Zoom (meets daily at 230p EST and 7p EST) and Whatever It Takes Zoom (meets daily at 8a EST). To join: Zoom ID: 789 7054 7193 PW: 920284 Link: https://tinyurl.com/Serenity-Zoom
- AAHomeGroup provides an open platform 24/7, offering support and connection any time of day or night. They are an open meeting, which means everyone is welcome—whether just curious, newly exploring recovery, or have been part of the fellowship for years. You are encouraged to join and see what they're all about. You belong here.
- Online Intergroup Group Events (including online holiday events): https://aa-intergroup.org/group-events/
In 2024, there was a General Service Conference advisory action that “a pamphlet on the Asian and Asian-American alcoholic in A.A. be developed.” In response, the trustees’ Literature Committee has opened a call for recovery stories. The trustees’ Literature Committee is seeking stories of personal recovery from all members in the A.A. structure of the United States and Canada with ethnic or cultural ties to Asia. Deadline: March 31, 2026, pamphletstories@aa.org
Welcome to the District 25 Corrections Connection! Zoom Meeting ID: 897 2287 4200, Passcode: 146481. Meeting on the third Wednesday of the month at 6:00 PM Pacific. The Fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous was in its seventh year when a pioneering warden at San Quentin asked nearby A.A.s to carry the message to alcoholics in the prison. The year was 1942—the warden was Clinton Duffy. He was heard to say, “If the A.A. program will help just one man, I want to start it.” Today there are hundreds of A.A. groups behind the walls, as well as corrections committees serving them. In 1977, the General Service Conference recommended that the Institutions Committee be dissolved and two new committees—one dealing with Corrections, and one with Treatment Facilities—be formed. If you want to help carry a message of hope to those incarcerated, please contact Jill L at "Dist25Corrections@Area72AA.org" and/or refer to the D25 Corrections flyer here or to the Corrections page here.
Pine Lake Speakers Meeting: Pine Lake Covenant Church, 1715 228th Ave SE, Sammamish, WA 98075. Monthly, 2nd Saturday of each month 7PM Pacific. https://www.liveatpinelake.org/ Zoom: 977 787 8779 Pwd: 1212
The Big Book of AA (page 85) says: “We are not cured of alcoholism. What we really have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition." Here's a useful reference for working the steps and maintaining your "spiritual condition" from Dave F: The 12 daily Prayers, Meditations & Visions
Bridging the Gap Online is always looking for people who are interested in "Online Bridging" -- which consists of helping a new person leaving treatment or rehab to become acquainted with AA online and to learn about the AA program and the community of online AA meetings. Sponsorship is not requirement of Bridging the Gap, but acting as a temporary contact to help with Zoom Online Meetings would be helpful. Sign up here.
Bazillions of online meetings here: https://aa-intergroup.org/meetings/ -- there are 2,679 groups and 8,096 meetings listed.
The Story of Irma Livoni - is the reason behind Tradition Three: "The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop drinking." Also there is a very thoughtful and interesting Grapevine article on Tradition Three and "Singleness of Purpose".
District 25 Treatment Center Committee ongoing commitments can be found here. Please consider supporting these online Zoom meetings with your presence.
Eastside Intergroup is still looking for members willing to speak in middle school and high school classrooms. Click here for more information.
Grapevine is still collecting up to 7-minute-long stories from the Fellowship in the form of audio recordings. Learn more here.
The Area 72 Technology Committee is still looking to recruit those with technology skills. Here’s a form to fill out to make yourself available.

Memorable Quotes

I try hard to hold fast to the truth that a full and thankful heart cannot entertain great conceits. When brimming with gratitude, one's heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion we can ever know. -- AS BILL SEES IT, p. 37

Gratitude is the catalyst that turns pain into growth, selfishness into love, anger into peace, and despair into hope.

--- GMM

"Taking advantage of technological advances, for example, A.A. members with computers can participate in meetings online, sharing with fellow alcoholics across the country or around the world. In any meeting, anywhere, A.A.’s share experience, strength, and hope with each other, in order to stay sober and help other alcoholics. Modem-to-modem or face-to-face, A.A.’s speak the language of the heart in all its power and simplicity."

--- Forward to the 4th Edition of the Big Book of AA

“I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see.

I sought my God, but my God eluded me.

I sought my brother and I found all three.”

---William Blake

"I take actions I don't believe in,

I get results I never expected,

and I find grace I never knew

how to look for."

--- GMM

Gratitude is the catalyst that turns

pain into growth, selfishness into love,

anger into peace, and despair into hope.

--- GMM

"I slept and dreamt that life was joy.

I awoke and saw that life was service.

I acted and behold, service was joy."

―Rabindranath Tagore

"Meditation is sitting still long enough to hear the silence behind the noise. Prayer is asking for permission and help to live as if the silence were the truth of me.”

—Jeff Kober

"Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realizing you were the prisoner!"

--Max Lucado

"Isolation is the dark room where I develop my negatives"

--- Josh B SBOnline

"Pain is inevitable, suffering and misery are optional, redemption is possible. We cannot avoid pain, but we can avoid joy. There are two kinds of pain, one that hurts you, and the other that changes you."

-- Heard at a meeting

"I've been through some terrible things in my life. Some of them have actually happened."

--- Heard in a meeting

“A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.”

― Dinah Maria Craik

"Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for. The damned thing in the cave, that was so dreaded, has become the center."
---Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

"When we are reduced to our last extreme, there is no further evasion. The choice is a terrible one. It is made in the heart of darkness. . .when we who have been destroyed and seem to be in hell miraculously choose God!

Perhaps none of us could achieve true adult maturity—or a relationship with God—without having the foundations of our lives shaken. . . When our defiant wills led us to the utter bottom of our despair, we finally turned to a Power greater than ourselves and found a new way to live."

--- Thomas Merton

"Nanakorobi yaoki" (literally: seven falls, eight getting up) Means: "fall down seven times and get up eight."

No matter how many times you get knocked down, you get up again. Even if you should fall one thousand times, you just keep getting up and trying again.

--- Japanese Proverb

Twenty Questions for Alcoholics

We are not a glum lot! Humor helps us cheerfully trudge the road of happy destiny. So we say this in jest and mean no offense! Apologies in spirit of Rule 62 to the REAL GSO FAQ (formerly "44 Questions) and the new "Self Assessment".

Have you ever fallen asleep in the sun and gotten a sunburn on the roof of your mouth?
Did you only drink on days ending in "y?"
Have you ever been hit by a parked car or a tree while driving?
Have you ever run over yourself while driving?
After reading about the bad effects of drinking, did you decide to quit reading?
Can you put vodka in a humidifier? Asking for a friend.
After 4-6 drinks, do you start using the word "fuck!" as a comma?
Do you think that the best cure for a hangover is being under 25?
Have you ever thought that "being clean and sober" means you've showered and are heading

to the liquor store?

Have you ever thought that drinking at home is so much better than the bar because there's no last call and you can be naked?
Have you ever thought about taking the bag out of a box of wine so you can use it as a pillow to suckle yourself to sleep?
Have you ever had to use clues laying around you to reconstruct what the fuck you did last night?
Does this sound like you?

Liquor store assistant: "Hey, do you need help?"

Me: "Yes, but I decided to come here instead."

Have you ever wanted to have a glass of wine, and realized it's not even noon and you're at work?
Have you ever thought drinking is another way of saying, "I want where I wake up to be a surprise?"
Do you think that "to drink responsibly" means "don't spill it?"
Is it still considered wine tasting if you're on the third glass?
Have you ever used an AA Big Book as a coaster?
Have you ever wondered whether this is a warning, or a suggestion? "Alcohol may intensify the effects of this medication."
Son: Hey Dad, what's an alcoholic?

Dad: Well Son, do you see those 4 cars? An alcoholic would see 8.

Son: Dad, there are only 2 cars.

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