GRATEFUL in Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous, 12 Steps and 12 Traditions

From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)

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GRATEFUL occurs 5 times (Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)

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... grateful!" 12&12 p.133, Tradition Two

They should be grateful!"

... grateful and exert ourselves the more in ... 12&12 p.124, Step Twelve

When by devoted service to family, friends, business, or community we attract widespread affection and are sometimes singled out for posts of greater responsibility and trust, we try to be humbly grateful and exert ourselves the more in a spirit of love and service.

... grateful benefactors had endowed clubhouses, and as ... 12&12 p.161, Tradition Seven

Now and then, grateful benefactors had endowed clubhouses, and as a result there was sometimes outside interference in our affairs.

... grateful that he drinks no more, they ... BB p.128, The Family Afterward

While grateful that he drinks no more, they may not like the idea that God has accomplished the miracle where they failed.

... grateful that Reason had brought us so ... BB p.53, We Agnostics

We were grateful that Reason had brought us so far.

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