AA KISS THE SKY Suggested Format


MEETING INTRO VIDEO- https://youtu.be/aU_kDAP16I8?feature=shared



KISS THE SKY WEBSITE- https://msha.ke/aakissthesky.com


CHAIR SCHEDULE- https://sites.google.com/view/schedule2506/home








Hello, my name is _________________ and I am an alcoholic. Welcome to the online open meeting of the KISS THE SKY group of Alcoholics Anonymous. 


This group meets 7 nights per week from 9pm to 10:15pm  eastern time, with a less structured parking lot to follow. 




If you would like to join our Kiss The Sky home group, share with us and let us know you. You're a home group member here if you say you are.



The message of this home group is to celebrate life with our experience in the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous.


 

After a moment of silence, we will open the meeting with the Serenity Prayer.


“God, Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”


Preamble

Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of people who share their

experience, strength and hope with each other that they may

solve their common problem and help others to recover from

alcoholism.

The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking.

There are no dues or fees for A.A. membership; we are self-

supporting through our own contributions. A.A. is not allied with

any sect, denomination, politics, organization or institution; does

not wish to engage in any controversy, neither endorses nor

opposes any causes. Our primary purpose is to stay sober and

help other alcoholics to achieve sobriety.


Will someone please read the first paragraph of the foreword to the first edition of the big book as it is written on page xiii?


“WE, OF Alcoholics Anonymous, are more than one hundred men and women who have recovered from a seemingly hopeless state of mind and body. To show other alcoholics precisely how we have recovered is the main purpose of this book. For them, we hope these pages will prove so convincing that no further authentication will be necessary. We think this account of our experiences will help everyone to better understand the alcoholic. Many do not comprehend that the alcoholic is a very sick person. And besides, we are sure that our way of living has its advantages for all."



Will someone read How it Works starting on page 58 of the big book?



Meeting Start

In this meeting, we celebrate AA recovery. We are so glad everyone is here and hope you all participate.


Before we get started...



Start the reading....





After the shares, say- hey everybody, we are going into the after party. The meeting is yours. Share on your recovery and call on the next person!
















Sponsorship is an integral part of our program. If you are new or do not have a sponsor, we urge you to identify with someone in the meeting and seek out a sponsor. You may reach out to anyone in this meeting. We are always are available to help.






Literature Schedule- Read 2 to 3 pages

Daily Reflections, Mon-Tues

12 and 12, Wed-Thur

Big Book, Fri-Sun




Links

The Big Book | Alcoholics Anonymous

Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions Book | Alcoholics Anonymous

Daily Reflections | Alcoholics Anonymous




Please raise your virtual hand to share. We ask that Please share on the reading and solutions which you have experienced in recovery.











                   


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KISS THE SKY WEBSITE- https://msha.ke/aakissthesky.com
KISS THE SKY Group meets 7 nights per week

9PM EST

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remember the trees – breath prayer

Breathe in your inherent belovedness.
Breathe out the lure of toxic cycles.

Breathe in love that makes your heart soft.
Breathe out any anger that is being misdirected.

Breathe in acceptance that all cannot be immediately solved.
Breathe out the need to control.

Breathe in the wisdom of ancestors who labored for collective love and justice.
Breathe out the temptation towards the superficial.

Breathe in a breath of humility.
Breathe out all that makes you shrink.

And then remember the trees.
Their giving and receiving of breath.
See them holding so much for us.
Offer a confession. And a prayer of gratitude.
And let your roots sink deep into the soil of god.

by M Jade Kaiser












THE 9th STEP PROMISES- pages 83-84 of the Big Book


If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are halfway through.

We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness.

We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it.

We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace.

No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others.

That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear.

We will lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in our fellows.

Self-seeking will slip away.

Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change.

Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us.

We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us. We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves.

Are these extravagant promises? We think not. They are being fulfilled among ussometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. They will always materialize if we work for them.







Tenth Step Promises- pages 84-85 of the Big Book



  And we have ceased fighting anything or anyone—even alcohol. For by this time sanity will have returned. We will seldom be interested in liquor. If tempted, we recoil from it as from a hot flame. We react sanely and normally, and we will find that this has happened automatically. We will see that our new attitude toward liquor has been given us without any thought or effort on our part. It just comes! That is the miracle of it. We are not fighting it, neither are we avoiding temptation. We feel as though we had been placed in a position of neutrality—safe and ­protected. We have not even sworn off. Instead, the problem has been removed. It does not exist for us. We are neither cocky nor are we afraid. That is our ­experience. That is how we react so long as we keep in fit spiritual condition.






Responsibility Statement

I am responsible, when anyone, anywhere, reaches out for help,

I want the hand of AA always to be there, and for that

I am responsible.




“Acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing or situation—some fact of my life—unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment. Nothing, absolutely nothing, happens in God’s world by mistake. Until I could accept my alcoholism, I could not stay sober; unless I accept life completely on life’s terms, I cannot be happy. I need to concentrate not so much on what needs to be changed in the world as on what needs to be changed in me and my attitudes.”







Serenity Prayer:

Please join me in a moment of silence before joining in the Serenity Prayer.


“God, Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”


AA Camel Prayer


The camel each day goes twice to his knees.

He picks up his load with the greatest of ease.

He walks through the day with his head held high.

And stays for that day, completely dry.








11th Step Prayer/ Prayer of St. Francis


“Lord, make me a channel of thy peace—that where there is hatred, I may bring love—that where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness—that where there is discord, I may bring harmony—that where there is error, I may bring truth—that where there is doubt, I may bring faith—that where there is despair, I may bring hope—that where there are shadows, I may bring light—that where there is sadness, I may bring joy. Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort than to be comforted—to understand, than to be understood—to love, than to be loved. For it is by self-forgetting that one finds. It is by forgiving that one is forgiven. It is by dying that one awakens to Eternal Life. Amen.”


  


Lord’s Prayer 

Our Father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name;
thy kingdom come;
thy will be done;
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation;
but deliver us from the evil.
For thine is the kingdom,
the power and the glory,
for ever and ever. Amen.