The Promises

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1. If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are halfway through.

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2. We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness.

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3. We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it.

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4. We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace.

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5. No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others.

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6. That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear.

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7. We will lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in our fellows.

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8. Self-seeking will slip away.

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9. Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change.

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10. Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us.

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11. We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us.

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12. We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves

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Are these extravagant promises?

GROUP: 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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–Alcoholics Anonymous p83-84