Serenity Newsletter 1 Looking for: A few good men and women to Help with inventory. Tuesday, May 17 @ 9:30 am Sobriety, Fellowship, Coffee and Donuts. Lake-Sumter Central Office 2113 Citrus Blvd, Suite-AA, Leesburg, FL 34748 Call and let us know you are coming: (352) 360-0960 1 May 2016 Lake-Sumter Central Office 2113 Citrus Blvd, Suite-AA, Leesburg, FL 34748 (352) 360-0960 www.aalakesumter.com
Have you checked out our new and improved website? Everything you need to know about recovery in our area! 2 www.aalakesumter.com *Meeting Schedules *Detox information *Central Office *Special Events *Corrections *A.A. Literature *And much, much more ````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````... 6th Annual Women s Workshop Presented by the Circle of Light Group in Umatilla May 21, 2016 Location: Bridges Church, 1100 N St Clair Abrams Ave, Tavares Registration is Free and a Lite Lunch is provided (Additional Dishes Welcome) Topic is RULE 62, "Don't Take Yourself Too Damn Seriously" 12 & 12 page 149. Registration begins at 9:30 am. Workshop concludes at 4:30 pm. Thursday Wildwood (starts 4/21/2016) NEW AA meeting. 2 02:00PM House of Hope, 4646 49th Blvd NE, Bldg 3 COME TO BELIEVE MEETING Big change! St. Tim s Tuesday AA,and AlAnon Meeting will be held in the Church beginning May 17 until renovations are completed in the Parish Hall. Park in the usual place, and use the same door we have always used to enter. There will be people there to give you directions to the meeting rooms.
3 Who wrote our Serenity Prayer? But despite years of research by numerous individuals, the exact origin of the prayer is shrouded in overlays of history, even mystery. Moreover, every time a researcher appears to uncover the definitive source, another one crops up to refute the former's claim, at the same time that it raises new, intriguing facts. What is undisputed is the claim of authorship by the theologian Dr. Rheinhold Niebuhr, who recounted to interviewers on several occasions that he had written the prayer as a "tag line" to a sermon he had delivered on Practical Christianity. Yet even Dr. Niebuhr added at least a touch of doubt to his claim, when he told one interviewer, "Of course, it may have been spooking around for years, even centuries, but I don't think so. I honestly do believe that I wrote it myself.".. From The Origin of our Serenity Prayer as published in August September 1992 Box 459. 3 Central Office website www.aalakesumter.com Declaration of Unity District website www.lakecountyaa.com This we owe to A.A. s future: To place our common welfare first; To keep our fellowship united. For on A.A. unity depend our lives; And the lives of those to come. Central Office Business Meeting Second Wednesday of each month @ 6:30PM, District Meeting Second Thursday. of each month @ 6:30pm - Both meet @ Lake-Sumter Central Office, 2113 Citrus Blvd. Suite AA Leesburg, FL ALL ARE WELCOME!
May is the 5th month in our calendar year.what step are you on? Step 5 4 Admitted to God, to ourselves and another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. A Pre-Fifth Step Prayer: God, please help me to complete my housecleaning by admitting to another human being the exact nature of my wrongs. Please remove any fears I have about this step and show me how completion of it will remove my egotism and fear. Help me to see how this step builds my character through humility, fearlessness and honesty. Direct me to the right person who will keep my confidence and fully understand and approve what I am driving at. Then help me to pocket my pride and go to it, illuminating every twist of character, every dark cranny of the past so I may complete this step and begin to feel near to you." (72:1, 72:2, 73:0, 74:2, 75:2) The Promises associated with Step 5 from the Big Book of AA, p 75 1.Once we have taken this step withholding nothing, we are delighted. 2.We can look the world in the eye 3.We can be along at perfect peace and ease. 4.Our fears fall from us.. 5 We begin to fear the nearness of our creator 6. We may have had certain spiritual beliefs, but now we begin to have a spiritual experience. 7. The feeling that the drink problem has disappeared will often come strongly 8. We feel we are on the Broad Highway, walking hand in hand with the Spirit of the universe 9. Carefully reading the the first five proposals, we ask if we have omitted anything, for 4 we are building an arch through which we will walk a free man at last.
5 May Birthdays/Anniversaries Respectfully submitted by: Renee W 5 Happy Belated birthday Little Joe W. with Living Sober Morning 5 years ~ Feb 21, 2010
Lake-Sumter Corrections March Financial Report 6 Respectfully submitted by: Wanda B Lake-Sumter District 7 March Financial Report Respectfully submitted by: Teresa J, Treasurer 6
7 Lake-Sumter Central Office March Financial Report Respectfully submitted by: Patti T & Teresa J 7
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