John Hensley

Tonight the chair came in with something he’d drawn up, an analogy comparing our spiritual connection to a radio signal. Things can interfere with it, the volume can get turned up or down, and he had us drawing comparisons between that and the Big Book and the program. We also had a newcomer with…

Last night we were finishing up step five and moving into step six out of the twelve and twelve. I got called on to read, so I started the way I always do, my name is John, and I’m an alcoholic, and read from the middle of page sixty five. There’s a part that…

Tonight was our beginner’s meeting, the one we hold on Mondays for newcomers. The topic is usually kept simple, steps one, two, and three. The chair opened by having someone read the How It Works section, page fifty eight, and he singled out one sentence from it: Some of us have tried to hold…

Tonight, the chair asked me to read, from the last paragraph of page twenty two to the middle of page twenty three. The passage about the alcoholic who goes back to drinking. If you ask why, he can offer any number of alibis. It compares the drinking to a man who complains of a…