The Promises

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 17th Annual
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"The Promises"

 From Chapter 6 of Alcoholics Anonymous

 

...If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will  be amazed before we are half way through. We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness. We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it. We will comprehend the word serenity  and we will know peace. No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others. That feeling of uselessness  and self-pity will disappear. We will lose interest in selfish things  and gain insight into our fellows. Self-seeking will slip away. Our whole  attitude and outlook upon life will change. Fear of people and economic insecurity will leave us. We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us. We will suddenly realize that God is doing for  us what we could not do for ourselves.

Are these extravagant promises? We think not. They are being fulfilled among us sometimes quickly sometimes slowly. They will always materialize  if we work for them.

 

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