Alcoholics Anonymous Beginners & Refresher Class Sessions Prepared by Mike & Kathy L, West Orange, NJ
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other human being can provide such a defense. His defense must come from a Higher Power.”
Let’s wrap up our discussion of the physical and mental aspects of alcoholism by turning to the first page of Chapter 4, We Agnostics page 44. In the first paragraph, four lines down, the Big Book gives us a statement that can be turned into a question for us to ask ourselves so we can determine if we have the mind and the body of an alcoholic. The book reads:
“If, when you honestly want to, you find you cannot quit entirely,
or if when drinking, you have little control over the amount you take, you are probably alcoholic. If that be the case, you maybe suffering from an illness which only a spiritual experience will conquer.”
(page 44, ¶ 1, lines 4 – We will be asking a couple questions to those of you who want to take the first step with us. This first one is to help us determine if we have the
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