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If we willingly
surrender ourselves to the spiritual discipline of the Twelve Steps, our
lives will be transformed. We will become mature, responsible individuals
with a great capacity for joy, wonder and fulfillment.
Though we may never be perfect, continued spiritual progress will reveal
to us our enormous potential. We will discover that we are both worthy of
love and loving. We will love others without losing ourselves, and will
learn to accept love in return.
Our sight, once clouded and confused, will clear and we will be able to
perceive reality and recognize truth. Courage and fellowship will replace
fear. We will be able to risk failure to develop new, hidden talents.
Our lives, no matter how battered and degraded, will yield hope to share
with others. We will begin to feel and will come to know the vastness of
our emotions, but we will not be slaves to them.
Our secrets will no longer bind us in shame. As we gain the ability to
forgive ourselves, our families and our world, our choices will expand.
With dignity we will stand for ourselves, but not against our fellows.
Serenity and peace will have meaning for us, as we allow our lives and the
lives of those we love to flow day by day with God's ease, balance and
grace. No longer terrified, we will discover we are free to delight in
life's paradox, mystery and awe.
We will laugh more. Fear will be replaced by faith and gratitude will come
naturally as we realize that our Higher Power is doing for us what we
cannot do for ourselves. From
"Survival to Recovery", page 269-70, copyright 1994 by Al-Anon Family
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