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What Is AA?
Is AA For You?
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The Promises of A. A.
(Pages 82
& 83 of the Big Book)
If we are painstaking
about this phase of our development we will be amazed before we are half
way through.
We will 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 where 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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