![]() What is your favorite promise in the Big Book? Leave me a comment and let me know how it has changed your life. And knowing that other’s have experienced this fact, is often just enough inspiration to get me through one more day. There is also a great PDF with a list of the promises you can find by clicking here. If you are having a hard day, I would challenge you to pick up a Big Book and read through the promises. I am so thankful to finally be on the path to achieve them. These promises are the things I have been searching for my whole life. They reassure me that I am truly living the life I was meant to live. We will realize that God is doing for us what we couldn’t do for ourselves. We will know how to handle hard situations. We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace. We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it. If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through. We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness. Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us. The 9th Step Promises pages 83 & 84 of the Big Book If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through. The feeling of uselessness and self pity will disappear. We will see how our experiences can benefit others. Reprinted from the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous with permission of A.A. The Big Book promises us that we will know a new freedom and peace that we have never felt before. Are these extravagant promises We think not. But here is a summary of some of my favorites. You can find all of them on pages 83-84 of the Big Book. On days that are really hard, I can hold onto these promises. These are examples what of others have experienced from going through recovery and just knowing that these await me is more than enough to pull me out of my pity party. The next thing I can do, is look to the promises of the Big Book of AA. They were mostly awful so I have to remind myself of that fact. It’s so easy to forget that and to just over romanticize the good ol’ days. I feel like it’s unfair that I don’t get to enjoy the things that other people seem to be able to.Īfter I wallow in my pity party for a few moments, I pull myself out by remembering how miserable my life use to be when I was using. Sometimes I feel completely empty with no substitute for these substances. But there are also a lot of hard days where I miss the comfort I use to experience from my old vices. There are some days that I feel on top of the world. No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others. We will comprehend the word serenity and 4. We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it. And I’ve found in my recovery from alcoholism and food addiction, these feelings creep up more than ever before. The 12 Promises of Alcoholics Anonymous 1.
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