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Eugene Monday Noon Men's Stag 12:00 pm - 1:00pm First United Methodist Church 1376 Olive Street, Eugene, Oregon Meets in the library This is a closed meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous If you are a man and think you have a problem with alcohol, you are welcome to attend. (Web page is not regularly updated for Monday.)
Meeting Date	December 29, 2025
Chairman	Joe C.
Topic	Service
Comments	TBA
Readings	Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions pp 123-125 We have had a much keener look at ourselves and those about us. We have seen that we were prodded by unreasonable fears or anxieties into making a life business of winning fame, money, and what we thought was leadership. So false pride became the reverse side of that ruinous coin marked “Fear.” We simply had to be number one people to cover up our deep-lying inferiorities. In fitful successes we boasted of greater feats to be done; in defeat we were bitter. If we didn't have much of any worldly success we became depressed and cowed. Then people said we were of the “inferior” type. But now we see ourselves as chips off the same old block. At heart we had all been abnormally fearful. It mattered little whether we had sat on the shore of life drinking ourselves into forgetfulness or had plunged in recklessly and willfully beyond our depth and ability. The result was the same—all of us had nearly perished in a sea of alcohol. But today, in well-matured A.A.'s, these distorted drives have been restored to something like their true purpose and direction. We no longer strive to dominate or rule those about us in order to gain self-importance. We no longer seek fame and honor in order to be praised. When by devoted service to family, friends, business, or community we attract widespread affection and are sometimes singled out for posts of greater responsibility and trust, we try to be humbly grateful and exert ourselves the more in a spirit of love and service. True leadership, we find, depends upon able example and not upon vain displays of power or glory.  Still more wonderful is the feeling that we do not have to be specifically distinguished among our fellows in order to be useful and profoundly happy. Not many of us can be leaders of prominence, nor do we wish to be. Service, gladly rendered, obligations squarely met, troubles well accepted or solved with God's help, the knowledge that at home or in the world outside we are partners in a common effort, the well-understood fact that in God's sight all human beings are important, the proof that love freely given surely brings a full return, the certainty that we are no longer isolated and alone in self-constructed prisons, the surety that we need no longer be square pegs in round holes but can fit and belong in God's scheme of things—these are the permanent and legitimate satisfactions of right living for which no amount of pomp and circumstance, no heap of material possessions, could possibly be substitutes. True ambition is not what we thought it was. True ambition is the deep desire to live usefully and walk humbly under the grace of God.
Past Chairmen and Topics
5/8/23 Toby H. - What will you choose to practice today? 5/1/23 Jerry H. - Daily Reflections May 1, reading. Specifically, the last two paragraphs on page 130 11/21/22 Toby H. - Not interfering and just observing even though I’m scared and emotional 11/14/22 Jerry H. - Fear 8/2/21 Toby H. - Acceptance 6/14/21 Jeremy S. - TBA 5/31/21 Bill O. – Beaten into submission 5/24/21 David L. – Giving back 5/3/21 Art O. – The Promises 3/8/21 Joe C. – Turning it over 2/15/21 Bill O. - Give up, Surrender, Let Go... quit trying to be a self-made guy! 2/8/21 Toby H. - Service 2/1/21 Keith P. – Working with others 1/11/21 Art O. – We had to quit playing God. 1/4/20 Mark P. – If he means business… 12/21/20 Roger – The second half of Step 12 9/21/20 Bill O. – We aren’t a glum lot. 8/24/20 Shawn F. - What we used to be like, what happened, and what we are like now. 8/3/20 Joe C. - Our real purpose is to fit ourselves to be of maximum service to God and the people about us. 7/27/20 Keith P. – God’s will 6/29/20 Jay H. - Loopholes 6/1/20 Art O. – Step 3 5/4/20 David N. – Compromise at home 4/27/20 Keith P. – Happiness is not the point. 3/23/20 George K. - What is your true source of fear? What is you remedy? 5/20/19 Keith P. – Dr. Bob’s Nightmare