As Bill Sees It for 1/28/2013
Trudging that road.
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Troublemakers Can Be Teachers
Few of us are any longer afraid of what any newcomer can do to our A.A. reputation or effectiveness. Those who slip, those who panhandle, those who scandalize, those with mental twists, those who rebel at the program, those who trade on the A.A. reputation - all such persons seldom harm an A.A. group for long.
Some of these have become our most respected and best loved. Some have remained to try our patience, sober nevertheless. Others have drifted away. We have begun to regard the troublesome ones not as menaces, but rather as our teachers. They oblige us to cultivate patience, tolerance, and humility. We finally see that they are only people sicker than the rest of us, that we who condemn them are the Pharisees whose false righteousness does our group the deeper spiritual damage.
GRAPEVINE, AUGUST 1946
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Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Naperville, IL
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Love and tolerance is our code. Some people progress slower than others. I was probably that way. Maybe still am. But I'm sober, hopefully growing spiritually a little every day.
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