Alcoholics Anonymous Beginners & Refresher Class Sessions Prepared by Mike & Kathy L, West Orange, NJ
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When the first three columns are complete, the Big Book tells us to pray for the people we resent. Why Because we need to rid ourselves of these resentments. In the middle of page 66 let’s see what the Big Book says will happen if we hold onto these resentments:
“It is plain that a life which includes deep resentment leads only to futility and unhappiness. To the precise extent that we permit these, do we squander the hours that might have been worth while.
But with the alcoholic, whose hope is the maintenance and growth of a spiritual experience, this business of resentment is infinitely grave. We found that it is fatal. For when harboring such feeling we shut ourselves off from the sunlight of the Spirit. The insanity of alcohol returns and we drink again. And with us, to drink is to die.”
(page 66, ¶ 1, lines Well, that's very simple, isn't it The book says very clearly, if we continue to hold onto resentments we will drink again.
How do we get "free of anger, as the book suggests we do The next couple paragraphs deal with prayer.
First, the "Big Book" asks us to turn back to our list because it holds the key to our future. They tell us to look at it from an entirely different angle.
On the bottom of page 66, the book states:
This was our course We realized that the people who wronged us were perhaps spiritually sick. Though we did not like their symptoms and the way these disturbed us, they, like ourselves,
were sick too.
(page 66, ¶ 4, lines 1 & 2; page 67, lines 1 & The next few lines are prayers to rid our resentments.
Prayer:
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