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December 15


Faith is a fundamental requisite of success in retaining our sobriety - faith in God, faith in the Program, and faith in ourselves.

It can be likened to swimming: every normal person can swim, if he has faith in the laws of buoyancy and allows himself to be submerged enough. Those people who cannot swim are those who are afraid of the water and try to raise themselves above it.

Faith in the laws of Nature and in yourself enables you to swim, and a like faith in God, the Program and yourself will enable you to achieve our way of living.


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Surely everyone has faith.
I had faith that everything I touched would turn to sh1t, all my plans would fail and a bottle would put it all right. I needed and wanted that faith in a power greater than me (and my misplaced faith in the bottle) to set me on the road to sobriety, but though I needed that faith, it just wouldn't come until I said I wanted it.

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bikerbill wrote:

Surely everyone has faith.
I had faith that everything I touched would turn to sh1t, all my plans would fail and a bottle would put it all right. I needed and wanted that faith in a power greater than me (and my misplaced faith in the bottle) to set me on the road to sobriety, but though I needed that faith, it just wouldn't come until I said I wanted it.



Aye -- I remember just before I came into AA sitting in a pub with that first pint of Stella and thinking to myself "I can handle whatever life throws at me -- anything -- just as long as I can have this stuff." I had complete faith that life was pain and that alcohol was a magical gift that took that pain away.

Steve




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