12 Promises found on pp. 83-84 of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous
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.
Reprinted from Alcoholics Anonymous, pp. 83-84, with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.