... Alcoholics Anonymous - Back To The Forties Class #3 The 4th Step Inventory In class three we go over the 4th step - "Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves". We discuss resentments, fears, sex and wrongs done to others. How to use the 4th step inventory Welcome to Back To the 40's - How Alcoholics Anonymous worked in the 1940's. During the first decade after the publication of the Big Book... The recovery rate from alcoholism within the fellowship of AA was 75%. AA's program, as practiced then, was quite different from the program that is practiced today. To produce such an astounding recovery rate, what was done in the early days of AA? These five classes will provide an in depth look how this was done. Discover this in depth look at: Taking the 12 steps right out of the the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous! "To show other alcoholics precisely how we have recovered in the main purpose of this book." (Alcoholics Anonymous, pg xiii) That's how it was done back in the early days and it worked. "Here are the steps we took, which are suggested as a program of recovery." (Alcoholics Anonymous, pg 59) http://www.spiritualsteps.com/pdf_2012 4th step inventory worksheet available for download here http://www.spiritualsteps.com/pdf_2012/Back_To_The_Forties_Step4Sheet.pdf http://www.spiritualsteps.com/pdf_2012/Back_to_the_1940s_Leader_Script.pdf +++ "Alcoholics Anonymous: An interpretation of our Twelve Steps" http://www.spiritualsteps.com/pdf_2012/Alcoholics_Anonymous_An_interpretation_of_our_Twelve_Steps.pdf http://www.eskimo.com/~burked/history/tablemat.html http://www.hindsfoot.org/detr0.html ... So what happened? In the 1950's , with the publishing of the 12x12, groups started to change from "here are the steps we took" to here are the steps we'll just study. There was no such thing as "step Study" prior to 1952. A carefull reading of the Big Book shows a certain timeline for working the steps, its in the stories, Bill worked the steps with Ebby in Towns, 9 days sober. Dr Bob met Bill several times over a course of a few weeks, got drunk in Atlanta, and then did his amends in one day. Ernie T ( I think on page 291) describes going through the steps with Dr Bob in an afternoon. Clarence Snyder (home brewmeister) often said "give me a willing drunk on Friday and I'll show you a recovered alcoholic on Monday" None of which agrees with what I hear in the rooms today. 1940's style meetings in Cleveland, saw newcomers being taken through the steps in seminar fashion , in groups of 20-30 drunks all working the steps, recovery rates were twice as good as in NY. They actually worked the steps in the meeting, inventory was written between meetings and step 5 was done with a ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLNV3qAE4tY

.. Prayer of Saint Francis Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope. Where there is darkness, light. Where there is sadness, joy. O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console; to be understood, as to understand; to be loved, as to love. For it is in giving that we receive. It is in pardoning that we are pardoned, and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life. .. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llOZK3PqYTA