Credentials

 1 Paul, a bond-servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the faith of those chosen of God and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness… ~ Titus 1:1 NASB

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.~ Foreword to the First Edition, Alcoholics Anonymous

We start with credentials
who is writing
and to whom we’re talking.
Paul, a bond-servant of God,
a self-descriptor also used
by Peter, Jude, and James,
and an apostle, also a self-descriptor
he frequently used.
Titus, the recipient, a close companion of Paul’s
organized the churches in Crete.
Who was writing the Big Book
self-described as
more than one hundred men and women
who have recovered
from a seemingly hopeless
state of mind and body.
The readers were described as
other alcoholics to tell
precisely how the writers have recovered.
I write as a compulsive overeater in Recovery
to observe and compare
the other two works
after searching for parallels.

God, lead me to find
helpful passages and share the messages
to those the three of us might assist.