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The Promises
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 interest in our
fellows. Self-seeking will slip away. Our whole attitude and outlook upon life
will change. Fear of people and of 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.
Reprinted from Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th edition,
pages 83-84, with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.