{"id":154,"date":"2021-02-21T21:27:42","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T02:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morewillberevealedgroup.com\/?page_id=154"},"modified":"2021-09-21T20:51:22","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T00:51:22","slug":"literature","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/morewillberevealedgroup.com\/index.php\/literature\/","title":{"rendered":"Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of people who share
their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism.<\/p>

The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking.
There are no dues or fees for AA membership; we are self-supporting
through our own contributions. AA is not allied with any sect,
denomination, politics, organization or institution; does not wish to engage in any controversy; neither endorses nor opposes any causes. Our primary purpose is to stay sober and to help other alcoholics to achieve sobriety.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are halfway 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.<\/p>

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The 12 Traditions of AA
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1. Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon A.A. unity.<\/p>\n

2. For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority\u2014a loving God as He may express Himself in our group
conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern.<\/p>\n

3. The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop drinking.<\/p>\n

4. Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or A.A. as a whole.<\/p>\n

5. Each group has but one primary purpose\u2014to carry its message to the alcoholic who still suffers.<\/p>\n

6. An A.A. group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the A.A. name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest
problems of money, property, and prestige divert us from our primary purpose<\/p>\n

7. Every A.A. group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.<\/p>\n

8. Alcoholics Anonymous should remain forever nonprofessional, but our service centers may employ special workers.<\/p>\n

9. A.A., as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those
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10. Alcoholics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the A.A. name ought never be drawn into public
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11. Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal
anonymity at the level of press, radio, and films.<\/p>\n

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Rarely have we seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed our path. Those who do not recover are people who cannot or will not completely give themselves to this simple program, usually men and women who are constitutionally incapable of being honest with themselves. There are such unfortunates. They are not at fault; they seem to have been born that way. They are naturally incapable of grasping and developing a manner of living which demands rigorous honesty. Their chances are less than average. There are those, too, who suffer from grave emotional and mental disorders, but many of them do recover if they have the capacity to be honest.Our stories disclose in a general way what we used to be like, what happened, and what we are like now. If you have decided you want what we have and are willing to go to any length to get it \u2014 then you are ready to take certain steps.At some of these we balked. We thought we could find an easier, softer way. But we could not. With all the earnestness at our command, we beg of you to be fearless and thorough from the very start. Some of us have tried to hold on to our old ideas and the result was nil until we let go absolutely.Remember that we deal with alcohol \u2014 cunning, baffling, powerful! Without help it is too much for us. But there is One who has all power \u2014 that One is God. May you find Him now!Half measures availed us nothing. We stood at the turning point. We asked His protection and care with complete abandon.Here are the steps we took, which are suggested as a program of recovery:<\/p>

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Step 1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol \u2014 that our lives had become unmanageable.<\/p>\n

Step 2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.<\/p>\n

Step 3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.<\/p>\n

Step 4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.<\/p>\n

Step 5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.<\/p>\n

Step 6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.<\/p>\n

Step 7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.<\/p>\n

Step 8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.<\/p>\n

 Step 9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.<\/div>\n
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Step 10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.<\/div>\n
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Step 11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.<\/div>\n
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Step 12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.<\/div>\n
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Many of us exclaimed, \u201cWhat an order! I can\u2019t go through with it.\u2019\u2019 Do not be discouraged. No one among us has been able to maintain anything like perfect adherence to these principles. We are not saints. The point is, that we are willing to grow along spiritual lines. The principles we have set down are guides to progress. We claim spiritual progress rather than spiritual perfection.Our description of the alcoholic, the chapter to the agnostic, and our personal adventures before and after make clear three pertinent ideas:<\/div>
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(c)That God could and would if He were sought.<\/div>

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Readings The AA Preamble Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of people who sharetheir experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking.There are no dues or fees for AA membership; we are …<\/p>\n

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