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Originally Posted by jimhere  I might add that the Ninth Step Promises are not sommething to "get" in AA. In fact, there is nothing to get in AA.
I am grateful that my sponsor didn't dangle these in front of me like a carrot. He said these were results, a by product of taking the action in the Ninth Step. Not something to sit in AA meetings and wait for.
Jim |
for this reason, I like to think of "the promises" as "the verities" (or, the truths made manifest).
Once I have a spiritual awakening, which is possible through sobriety and following the steps of AA, the truths in my life will astound me. The truths of my life seem to improve daily. But, yes. If my sponsor or others had held the promises out as goals, I would not have had a way to conceive of them and would have locked in to a less than miraculous version of what actually is possible.