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Al-Anon Alive
02/2010
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The Twelve Promises of Al-Anon
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 great capacity for
joy, fulfillment, and wonder.
- 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 the 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 High Power is doing for us what we cannot do for ourselves.
From Survival to Recovery, Pages 269-270
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