“In meditation, we ask God what we should do about each specific matter. The right answer will come, if we want it.” (Page 69, Big Book)
One sometimes hears that one should never say ‘no’ to an AA request, and some people say they’re never said ‘no’ to an AA request. I’m not sure I believe this.
The programme suggests I turn my will and life not over to other AA members but to God.
Just because an AA member asks me to do something does not mean that that is God’s will.
If I said ‘yes’ to everything I am asked to do by other AA members, I would not have enough hours in the day, and I could not work or have any kind of life at all.
Other people are not God. That means when someone asks me to do something, I ask God whether it’s the right thing. Often the answer is ‘no’.