Alcoholics Anonymous
What participation in a 12-Step program can give you —
written in the 1930s, still happening for people today.
From the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, page 83–84:
“If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through. We are going to know…”
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.
We will comprehend the word serenity.
We will know peace.
No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience 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.
Self-seeking will slip away.
Our whole attitude and outlook on life will change.
Fear of people and economic insecurity will leave us.
We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us.
We will suddenly realize that Something… God… The Universe… something outside of and bigger than ourselves… is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves.
Your door
is waiting.
These aren’t promises made to you. They’re promises that have already been kept… for millions of people who once felt exactly what you’re feeling right now.