The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous

by Alcoholics Anonymous

admitted that from now on I was willing to let God take over, instead of me. Each day I would try to find out what His will was, and try to follow that, rather than trying to get Him to always agree that the things I thought of myself were the things best for me. So, when they came back, I told them.

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us, and it will probably be bad news for you. Weather you quit six days, months, or years, if you go out and take a drink or two you’ll end up in the hospital tied down, just like you have been in these past

Complete abstenance

“No, you have a disease, and it doesn’t make any difference how long you do without it, after a drink or two you’ll end up just like you are now.

Just twenty-four hours at a time.

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(Bill D.)

3

cure

Abstenace

Delirium tremors

Bill didn’t seem too impressed. Looking sadder than ever, he wearily ventured, “Well, this is wonderful for you fellows, but it can’t be for me. My case is so terrible that I’m scared to go out of this hospital at all. You don’t have to sell me religion, either. I was at one time a deacon in the church and I still believe in God. But I guess He doesn’t believe much in me.

Deacon first 3 steps picked up his bed and walked LAZARUS ?

Wouldn’t you like to see us again?

“These are the fellows I told you about; they are the ones who understands.

“If they can do it, I can do it!

God’s power,

His world first, above everything. I have already done it, and I am willing to do it again here in the presence of you or I am willing to say it any place, anywhere in the world from now on and not be ashamed of it.” And this, as I said, certainly gave me a lot of confidence, seemed to take a lot of the burden

Guilt

I remember telling them too that it was going to be awfully tough, because I did some other things, smoked cigarettes and played penny ante poker, sometimes bet on the horse races and they said, “Don’t you think you’re having more trouble with this drinking than with anything else at the present time? Don’t you believe you are going to have all you can do to get rid of that?” I said, “Yes,” reluctantly, “I probably will.

Smoker

eliminate

concentrate on th...

an inventory,

Steps 4&5

Then they said, “There is one more thing. You should go out and take this program to somebody else that needs it and wants it.

12step&tradition8

physically,

recompense

Make amends 8 9

the answer.

Completes abstenance

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Lord

c...

dis...

I thought, “I think I have the answer.

Bill

gra...

been released from this ter...

given God the...

“The Lord has been so wonderful to me, curing me of this terrible disease, that I just want to keep telling people about it,” has been a sort of a golden text for the A.A. program and for me.

I didn’t have to hide from people all the time, it’s just been wonderful. I still go to meetings, because

I’m still grateful for the good years

I’m so grateful for both the program and the people in it that I still want to go, and then probably the most wonderful th...

‘A.A. Gra...

The statement is, “I came into A.A. solely for the purpose of sobriety, but it has been through A.A. that I have found God.

NCAA MARTY MANSON

Marti mann

abysmal

Rita,

Irregular brief

Brooklyn.

Birth

Willie Seabrook

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interminable

normalcy.

debutante

matron.