Originally Posted by
tomsteve 
i dont do anything special for living the way i should have been my entire life.
I guess I feel this way too. I don't feel particularly worthy of all the wonderful things that have come my way, and I really hate it when someone starts congratulating me for something which was not my doing.
But I did make a deal in the steps. If God would take away my difficulties, which He did, I promised to bear witness to His power. So I front up as a witness to God's power and the fact that AA has a long term solution.