If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we are going to be amazed before we are halfway 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.
• No matter how far we have gone, we will see how our experiences 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.
• Our whole attitude and outlook on 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.

Excerpted from © Alcoholics Anonymous, “The AA Promises.”

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