Fced with impossible problems, we must remember that God can solve these problems if only we ask. It is humbling to realize that the ideas we’re using in Twelve Step programs have been around for centuries. Our most serious lag is in learning to understand ourselves and each other. We are always discovering new possibilities for humankind as we stretch the frontiers of knowledge. Every advancement in science really reveals more information about God and the universe. It might be said that all real human progress is the same order. The more we can move into conscious contact with God, the more freedom and power we will experience. What it really neat is that God exists outside the conditions and restrictions that make our own lives so limited. One ancient saying claims that “with God, all things are possible.” That’s quite a statement, one we may claim to believe without living as though we do. They become the real and permanent leadership of A.A. Happily, most of them survive and live to become elder statesmen. Nearly every oldtimer in our Society has gone through this process in some degree. He constantly connives for re-election to office and continues to be consumed with self-pity. The bleeding deacon is just as surely convinced that the group cannot get along without him. His judgment, fortified by considerable experience, is sound he is willing to sit quietly on the side lines patiently awaiting developments. The elder statesman sees the wisdom of the group’s decision to run itself and holds no resentment over his reduced status. slang as “elder statesmen” and “bleeding deacons.” The founders of many groups ultimately divide into two classes known in A.A. I pray that by faith I may look beyond the now to eternal life. Faith’s look gives you a new and vital power and a wonderful peace and serenity. Faith’s look brings you all the strength you need. Faith’s look brings a peace beyond all understanding. Faith’s look saves you from worry and care. “Look unto Him and be saved.” To look beyond material things is within the power of everyone’s imagination. Look by faith into that place beyond space or time where God dwells and whence you came and to which you shall eventually return. Do I know that I can’t stay sober successfully alone? meetings and then stay sober alone for a few months, but usually they eventually get drunk. A lot of people have tried it and failed. It’s also been proved that it’s very hard to keep sober all by yourself. It’s a well known fact that helping others is a big part of keeping sober yourself. for two main reasons: to keep sober ourselves and to help others to keep sober. I have the freedom to be the best me I have ever been. I had a new freedom today, the freedom to be me. Other freedoms will follow, and inventorying them is a new happiness. If I truly want it, I will work the Twelve Steps and the happiness of this freedom will come to me through the Steps – sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. My first true freedom is the freedom not to have to take a drink today. We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness. If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through.
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