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From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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In that time nothing could be
seen but two struggling, nameless groups of alcoholics trying to hold their faces up to the light.
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Then he asked for the grace to
bring love, forgiveness, harmony, truth, faith, hope, light, and joy to every human being he could.
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Once we have a complete willingness to take inventory, and exert ourselves to do the job thoroughly, a wonderful
light falls upon this foggy scene.
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By late 1937, the number of members having substantial sobriety time behind them was sufficient to convince
the membership that a new
light had entered the dark world of the alcoholic.
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But when we had declared that our Fellowship couldn't hire service workers nor could any A.A. member carry our knowledge into other fields, we were taking the counsel of fear, fear which today has been largely dispelled in the light of experience.
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We all need the light of God's reality, the nourishment of His strength, and the atmosphere of His grace.
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All by himself, and in the light of his own circumstances, he needs
to develop the quality of
willingness.
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Most emphatically we wish to say that any alcoholic capable of honestly facing his problems in the
light of our experience
can recover, provided he
does not close his mind to all
spiritual concepts.
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This should be an entirely personal affair which each one decides for himself in the
light of past associations, or his present choice.
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The problem is to help them
discover a chink in the walls their ego has built, through which the light of reason can shine.
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Sometimes these excuses
have a certain plausibility, but none of
them really makes sense in the light of the havoc an alcoholic's drinking bout creates.
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But even in this type of beginning we are obliged to
admit that our justification for a spree
was insanely insufficient in the light
of what always happened.
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"Lord, make me a channel of thy peace -- that where there is hatred, I may bring love -- that where there is wrong,
I may bring the spirit of forgiveness -- that where there is discord, I may bring harmony -- that where there is error, I may bring truth -- that where there is doubt, I may bring faith -- that where there is despair, I may bring hope -- that where there are shadows, I may bring light -- that where there is sadness, I may bring joy.
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To watch the eyes of men and women open with wonder as they move from darkness into light, to see their lives quickly fill with new purpose and meaning, to see whole families reassembled, to
see the alcoholic outcast received back into his community in full citizenship, and above all to watch these people awaken to the presence of a loving God in their lives -- these things are the substance of
what we receive as we carry
A.A.'s message to the next alcoholic.
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