If we are painstaking about this
phase of our development, we will 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. We will comprehend the word serenity and 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 upon 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.
Are these extravagant promises? We think not! They are being fulfilled among us
- Sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. They will always materialize if we work
for them.
Alcoholics Anonymous p.
83-84