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'This is our road to spiritual growth. We change every day.... This growth is not the result of wishing but of action and prayer.'

Basic Text, p. 35-36

Our spiritual condition is never static; if it's not growing, it's decaying. If we stand still, our spiritual progress will lose its upward momentum. Gradually, our growth will slow, then halt, then reverse itself. Our tolerance will wear thin; our willingness to serve others will wane; our minds will narrow and close. Before long, we'll be right back where we started: in conflict with everyone and everything around us, unable to bear even ourselves.

Our only option is to actively participate in our program of spiritual growth. We pray, seeking knowledge greater than our own from a Power greater than ourselves. We open our minds and keep them open, becoming teachable and taking advantage of what others have to share with us. We demonstrate our willingness to try new ideas and new ways of doing things, experiencing life in a whole new way. Our spiritual progress picks up speed and momentum, driven by the Higher Power we are coming to understand better each day.

Up or down - it's one or the other, with very little in between, where spiritual growth is concerned. Recovery is not fueled by wishing and dreaming, we've discovered, but by prayer and action.

Just for today: The only constant in my spiritual condition is change. I cannot rely on yesterday's program. Today, I seek new spiritual growth through prayer and action.

pg. 238

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History of Medallions

The History Medallions in AA

Have you ever wondered how the custom of passing out AA medallions began? The story behind this claim is a story of innovation and strength of the recovery fellowship. In 1973, Wendell’s was fortunate that we had their own Bill W. working with them. Bill had been in AA since 1969.

Around his work and family schedules, Bill was actively involved in the community, giving talks at mission farms, and detention centers. At these talks, Bill handed out medallions with the serenity prayer on one side and AA on the other. It was a fine medallion, one that reflected Bill’s desire that his fellow alcoholic could carry it as a reminder of the personal pride of accomplishment that their sobriety meant. Bill was also an innovator, and he knew the pride that would come with a medallion that would help remind a person just how long they had been sober. Working with his fellow employees here at Wendell’s, Bill designed a medallion that had the distinctive raised center, the triangle and the Roman Numeral years. The raised center anniversary medallion was born and introduced to the world in November of 1973, at a Founders Group weekend in Minneapolis, it was an outstanding success.

In 1973, the capabilities of the mint were more limited and the raised center was soldered on the coin. Soon after the introduction, the demand for the raised center anniversary medallion started pouring in from across the US and Canada. Realizing that the soldered center coin could not be supplied fast enough to meet the demands the single piece raised center medallion was developed and introduced. We are proud to say that this is the design that is carried by more recovering alcoholics than any other single reminder of their hard earned sobriety. Bill introduced the raised center anniversary medallion across the country and proudly represented recovery and Wendell’s until his retirement I n 1998.

Wendell’s still strives to maintain Bill’s spirit of innovation and we welcome Bill’s mentoring whenever he gets the opportunity to visit. At Wendell’s, we are proud to be the originators, proud to be the innovators, but most proud that it is people like Bill who create the ideas, establish the high standards of quality product and deliver the best Customer Service to you our customers and friends. We know that our designs have been copied, that is a wonderful compliment, but our quality, customer service and innovation will never be duplicated.

SoberCity.com, is proud to be the innovations with partners like Wendell’s to bring our community the quality and customer service in an online environment, while touching the lives of folks all over the world by passing on the sign of experience, strength and hope in these fine medallions we have all come to know and appreciate!

The Twelve Steps		The Twelve Traditions
1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol - that our lives had become unmanageable. 2. Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. 3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him. 4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. 5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. 6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. 7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings. 8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all. 9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. 10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptlym admitted it. 11. Sought though prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out. 12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics and to practice these principles in all our affairs.		1. Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon A.A. unity. 2. For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority - a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern. 3. The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop drinking. 4. Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or A.A. as a whole. 5. Each group has but one primary purpose - to carry its message to the alcoholic who still suffers. 6. An A.A. group ought never endorse, finance or lend the A.A. name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property and prestige divert us from our primary purpose. 7. Every A.A. group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions. 8. Alcoholics Anonymous should remain forever non-professional, but our service centers may employ special workers. 9. A.A., as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve. 10. Alcoholics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the A.A. name ought never be drawn into public controversy. 11. Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio and films. 12. Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.