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From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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If we really depended upon God, we couldn't very well play God to our fellows nor would we feel the urge wholly to rely on human protection and care.
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The wife usually goes on doing the best she knows how, but meanwhile the alcoholic
alternately loves and hates her maternal care.
3.
Now and then, A.A. members have bought farms or rest homes where badly beat-up topers could find needed care.
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On the third day the lawyer gave his life to the care and direction of his Creator,
and said he was perfectly
willing to do anything necessary.
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He now returned home, leaving behind his first acquaintance, the lawyer
and the devil-may-care chap.
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10.
If you don't care for the one
I've suggested, you'll be sure to discover one that suits if only you look and listen.
11.
No, the average alcoholic, self-centered in the extreme,
doesn't care for this prospect -- unless he has to
do these things in order to
stay alive himself.
12.
Many years ago one of the leading contributors to
this book came under our care in this hospital and while here he acquired some ideas which he put into practical application
at once.
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Then he had gone to Europe, placing himself in the care of a celebrated physician (the psychiatrist, Dr. Jung) who prescribed for him.
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Step Three -- "Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God, as we understood Him."
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In fact, the effectiveness of the whole A.A. program will rest upon how well and earnestly we have tried to come to "a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him."
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Consequently, in Step Three we turned our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
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If I keep on turning my life and my will over to the care of Something or Somebody else, what will become of me?
22.
We usually conclude the
period of meditation
with a prayer that we be shown all through the day what our next step is to be, that we be given whatever we need to take care of such problems.
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How could we ever take care of those awful debts, possess a decent home, educate the kids, and set something by for old age?
26.
When we had taken the opposite tack and had insisted, like infants ourselves, that people protect and take care of us or that the world owed us a living, then the result had
been equally unfortunate.
27.
No matter how much one wishes to try, exactly how can he turn his own will and his own life over
to the care of whatever God he thinks there is?
28.
Isn't it true that in all matters touching upon alcohol, each of them has decided to turn his or her life over to the care, protection, and guidance
of Alcoholics Anonymous?
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XII. The Conference shall observe the spirit of A.A. tradition, taking care that it never becomes the seat of perilous wealth or power; that sufficient operating funds and reserve be its prudent financial principle; that it place none of its members in a position of unqualified authority
over others; that it reach all important decisions by discussion,
vote, and, whenever possible, by substantial
unanimity; that its actions never be personally punitive nor an incitement to public controversy; that
it never perform acts of government, and that,
like the Society it serves, it will always remain democratic in thought and
action.
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Perhaps, though, your relation to him is such that
you would care to reveal only
a part of your story.
33.
We believe there isn't a fellowship on earth which lavishes more devoted care upon its individual members; surely there is none which more jealously guards the individual's right to think, talk, and act as he wishes.
34.
Are we going to be so rigidly righteous about making amends that we don't
care what happens to the family and home?
35.
Your husband will be the first to say it was your devotion and care which brought him to the point where
he could have a spiritual experience.
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He proved to be a devil-may-care young fellow whose parents could not make out whether he wanted to stop drinking or not.
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