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If we are painstaking about this phase of our
development we will be amazed before we are halfway
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 the book, "Alcoholics Anonymous"®
Copyright © 1939, 1955, 1976, A.A. World Services, Inc.
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