Welcome!

Monday Orange Al-Anon Family Group

Meeting starts at 10:00 am est.

Just A Reminder of Our Virtual Meeting Guidelines ...

If you do not want to be on camera, you're welcome to TURN YOUR CAMERA OFF.
Please MUTE your microphone OR your phone when you are not speaking.
To share OR speak up, please UNMUTE YOUR MIC or PHONE and say your name.
Please remember that this is an anonymous fellowship. If there are others in your home,
please protect the anonymity of other members by using headphones and being mindful
of who can see your screen or go to another location in your home where the meeting
cannot be overheard or seen by others.
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Opening

We welcome you to the Monday Orange  Al-Anon Family group

and hope that you will find in this fellowship the help and
friendship we have been privileged to enjoy.

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Would you please join me in saying the Serenity Prayer:

“God, grant me the serenity

To accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can,
And the wisdom to know the difference.”

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We who live, or have lived, with the problem of alcoholism understand as
perhaps few others can. We, too, were lonely and frustrated, but in Al-Anon
we discover that no situation is really hopeless and that it is possible for us
to find contentment, and even happiness, whether the alcoholic is still
drinking or not.

We urge you to try our program. It has helped many of us find solutions that
lead to serenity. So much depends on our own attitudes, and as we learn to
place our problem in its true perspective, we find it loses its power to
dominate our thoughts and our lives.

The family situation is bound to improve as we apply the Al-Anon ideas.

Without such spiritual help, living with an alcoholic is too much for most of
us. Our thinking becomes distorted by trying to force solutions, and we
become irritable and unreasonable without knowing it.
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The Al-Anon program is based on the Twelve Steps (adapted from Alcoholics
Anonymous) which we try, little by little, one day at a time, to apply to our lives,
along with our slogans and the Serenity Prayer.  The loving interchange of help
among members and daily reading of Al-Anon literature thus make us ready to
receive the priceless gift of serenity.

Anonymity is an important principle of the Al-Anon program. Everything that is

said here, must be held in confidence. Only in this way can we feel free to say
what is in our minds and hearts, for this is how we help one another in Al-Anon.

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Al-Anon Preamble
The Al-Anon Family Groups are a fellowship of relatives and friends of
alcoholics who share their experience, strength, and hope in order to solve
their common problems. We believe alcoholism is a family illness and that
changed attitudes can aid recovery.

Al-Anon is not allied with any sect, denomination, political entity, organization,
or institution; does not engage in any controversy; neither endorses nor
opposes any cause. There are no dues for membership. Al-Anon is self-
supporting through its own voluntary contributions.

Al-Anon has but one purpose, to help families of alcoholics. We do this by

practicing the Twelve Steps, by welcoming and giving comfort to families of
alcoholics, and by giving understanding and encouragement to the alcoholic.
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Are there any newcomers?
Welcome! Our personal situations may be different, but we share as equals because of what we
have in common: our lives have been affected by another person’s drinking. Al-Anon is a mutual
support group.

We can find understanding and support when we share our common experience with each
other. Some of us are here because a spouse or partner has struggled with alcoholism. For
others, the problem drinker is a parent, child, or grandchild. Sometimes a brother, a sister, or
some other friend or relative brings us to Al-Anon. Many of us have had more than one
alcoholic family member or friend.

Alcoholism has similar effects on us all, even though our relationships to the alcoholic may be
different. Many newcomers are most interested in hearing about situations and relationships
that are similar to their own. Over time, however, we come to understand that we can benefit
from hearing how the Al-Anon principles worked in many different circumstances.

We suggest that you attend six meetings before you decide whether Al-Anon is for you or not.

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"Cross talk" is:

debating, answering, “you” and “we” statements, interrogating, controlling,

self-avoidance, advice-giving, talking to, unsolicited feedback, criticizing,
dominating. No cross talk please!

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 Since this is a program of
anonymity, we will introduce
ourselves by first name only.

"My name is …"

(We will take turns based on how members'
names show up on the PARTICIPANTS LIST on
this Zoom meeting - please see your screen)

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For all members, we ask that you
please be aware of the length of your
sharing so that everyone will get a
chance to share if they wish to do so.

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Usually there is a list being passed around for members to write down their
first names and phone numbers. In this meeting, we will use the CHAT feature
to do so.

The phone numbers are for members to use in between meetings if they
would like to contact another Al-Anon member by phone for support. It is not
mandatory to put your name or phone number on the list. Please write “can
sponsor” after your name and number if you are willing to be a sponsor.

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Reports:

1. Treasurer’s Report.
2. Group Representative Report.
3. Any other announcements.

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We will now read the
Step, Tradition and
Concept of the month.
(who wants to volunteer to read them?)

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Would someone please read the page from One Day At A Time,
Courage to Change OR Hope for Today?

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Yellow and blue signs and “Let It Begin With Me”:

Al-Anon spoken here! Keep the focus on our program, please! Let’s leave
other affiliations outside: your professions, other philosophies, outside
publications, religions, other 12-step programs.
Whom you see here, what you hear here, when you leave here, let it stay
here.
Let it begin with me … When anyone anywhere reaches out for help, let the
hand of Al-Anon and Alateen always be there, and “Let it begin with me.”

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We will now turn the meeting over
to our Programmer.
(Please MUTE yourself if / when not speaking - Thank You.)

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 Volunteers for next week's
Host, Secretary & Programmer?
(Or please check if there is any volunteers already
in our group's online meeting calendar)

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Closing
In closing, I would like to say that the opinions expressed here were strictly
those of the person who gave them. Take what you liked and leave the rest. 

The things you heard were spoken in confidence and should be treated as
confidential. Keep them within the walls of this room and the confines of your
mind.

A few special words to those of you who haven’t been with us long: Whatever
your problems, there are those among us who have had them, too. If you try
to keep an open mind, you will find help. You will come to realize that there is
no situation too difficult to be bettered and no unhappiness too great to be
lessened.
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We aren’t perfect. The welcome we give you may not show the warmth we
have in our hearts for you. After a while, you’ll discover that though you may
not like all of us, you’ll love us in a very special way—the same way we already
love you.

Talk to each other, reason things out with someone else, but let there be no
gossip or criticism of one another. Instead, let the understanding, love, and
peace of the program grow in you one day at a time.

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Will all who care to join me in closing with the 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 evil.
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever.

Amen.

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