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Old 01-27-2008, 12:06 AM
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nandm
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29:1, 3-6

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Further on, clear-cut directions are given showing how we recoverd. These are followed by more than a score of personal experiences.
Many of us hear that there are no musts in AA and that there is no right or wrong way to work the steps. Hearing this we may wrongly assume that there is nothing we must do and mistakenly fear that there is nothing we can do to recover. If we knew what to do, we would have done it a long time ago. The promise of clear-cut directions is the promise that there actually is something we can do.

3-6
Each individual, in the personal stories, describes in his own language, and from his own point of view the way he established his relationship with God. These give a fair cross section of our membership and a clear-cut idea of what has actually happened in their lives.
The author's hope is that we will be able to decide for ourselves if we are alcoholic or not and, if we are, that we might follow their path to recovery.

The personal stories are told to illustrate how the authors began to awaken spiritually. To see how people, who obviously suffered from the same problem that we now face, recovered will help us to see that we can also recover.


Source:
The Annotated AA Handbook
a companion to the Big Book
Frank D.
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