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From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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About this time a lady called up my wife one Saturday afternoon saying she wanted me to come over that evening to meet a friend of hers who might help me.
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To be sure, we feel it is something that might help us
to meet an occasional emergency, but at first many of us are apt to regard it as a somewhat mysterious skill of clergymen, from which we may hope to get a secondhand benefit.
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The test that it faced was
this: Could these large numbers of erstwhile erratic alcoholics successfully meet and work together?
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Without it, they cannot live
to much useful purpose, or, in adversity,
be able to summon the faith that can meet any emergency.
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I was to sit quietly when in
doubt, asking only for direction and strength to
meet my problems as He would
have me.
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Many people, nonalcoholics, report
that as a result of the practice of A.A.'s Twelve Steps, they have been able to meet other difficulties of life.
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If we lean too heavily on people, they will sooner or later fail us, for they are human, too,
and cannot possibly meet our
incessant demands.
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We shall be with you in the Fellowship of the Spirit,
and you will surely meet some of us as you trudge the Road of Happy Destiny.
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Suppose we tell you some of
the obstacles a family will meet; suppose we suggest how they
may be avoided -- even converted to good use for others.
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This brave philosophy, wherein each man plays God, sounds good in the speaking, but it still has to meet the acid test: how well does it actually work?
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He and all like him who "view
with alarm for the good of A.A." meet the most stubborn resistance or,
worse still, laughter.
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Our very lives, as ex-problem drinkers, depend upon our constant thought of others and how we
may help meet their needs.
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An alcoholic who cannot meet them, still has an alcoholic mind; there is something the matter with
his spiritual status.
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Have we alcoholics in A.A.
got, or can we get, the resources to meet these calamities which come to so
many?
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Nearly every modern employer feels a moral responsibility for the well-being of his help, and he tries to meet these responsibilities.
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Even our severest and most
justified critics will frequently meet us more than halfway on the first trial.
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If your husband is a drinker, you probably worry over what other people are thinking and you hate to meet your friends.
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