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.

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From 'Alcoholics Anonymous' -  4th. Edition  -  Page 83 - 84
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