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.
When I first started with AA I mentally called them 'The Dreams.' I so wanted for them to happen to me, but that wasn't going to happen. Now, all of a sudden, they are happening to me and life is starting to feel fantastic. I can see them being fulfilled in other people, too. I love that so much and get so much out of it.
At the end of an AA meeting here in the UK, I love it when someone reads out The Promises. I always feel a great sense of peace and optimism descend on me.
Take care and have a great day,
Carol
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Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ~Dr. Seuss
