VERSE:
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.
Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous pgs 83-84
