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- AA Preamble - What is Alcoholics Anonymous?
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The 12 Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous Short Form
The Promises Reprinted from page 83-84 AA Big Book-Third Edition with permission of AA World Services, Inc.
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 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.
God, Grant me
The serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can, and
Wisdom to know the difference.
Third Step Prayer -Reprinted from page 63 AA Big Book-Third Edition with permission of AA World Services, Inc.
"God, I offer myself to Thee -- to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy Power, Thy Love, and Thy Way of life. May I do Thy will always!"
Seventh Step Prayer Reprinted from page 76 AA Big Book-Third Edition with permission of AA World Services, Inc.
"My Creator, I am now willing that you should have all of me, good and bad. I pray that you now remove from me every single defect of character which stands in the way of my usefulness to you and my fellows. Grant me strength, as I go out from here, to do your bidding. Amen."
The Lords Prayer
Our Father, Who art in heaven,
hallowed be Thy name,
Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into
temptation; but deliver us from evil. Amen
"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. Lord, grant
that I may seek rather than to comfort than to be comforted--to understand, than
to be understood--to love, than to be loved. For it is by self-forgetting
that one finds. It is by forgiving that one is forgiven. It is by
dying that one awakens to Eternal Life. Amen"
