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.
Alcoholics Anonymous pp.83-84
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