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Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future
User Type: Standard
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ADDICTION:
Multiple Addictions
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THE PROMISES
The Promises, that are read in many A.A. Meetings can be found on page 83-84, of the Big Book, Alcoholics Anonymous.
THE A.A. 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 selfpity 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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I am an alcoholic and addict to the full extent!!!I was clean and sober from Feb.1996 until Sept.2005......Yeah I did just like they tell ya not to do, quit going to meetings, quit reading the book, quit working the steps, my sponser moved to China, I quit praying.....my relapse started long before that first drink!! Ya know I really do not know why some of us get the chances we get, I just know this has got to be my last,,,,,you only get so many chances Im starting new......just as I have in my life, Glad to be back!!! Since I dont have a drivers license its hard to make meetings like I should but Im strong, Im determined, I manage....I am willing this time around to go to ANY LENGTHS to maintain my sobriety!!!!
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I try not to have many dislikes but I guess it would be prejudice,racism, people that stereotype and judge, closed minds, hatred, things like that. I hate to cry, I hate that I feel things, I hate that Im an addict that I allow something to have that much power over me... I hate these things just as much as I love them!!!
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