1st STEP
We are without defense against this..
What is : the first drink
WE, OF ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, know thousands of men and women who were once just as hopeless as Bill. Nearly all have recovered. They have solved the ________ ______.
What is: Drink Problem.
Jim failed to enlarge this...
What is: his spiritual life
No one among us has been able to maintain anything like perfect adherence to these...
What is: principles.
Well, that's exactly what this book is about. Its main object is to enable you to find a Power greater than yourself which will....
A. Help you stop drinking
B. Relieve your drinking problem
C. Solve your problem
What is: solve your problem
Our so-called will power becomes______________
What is: practically nonexistent.
These are lad at our feet...
What is : the simple kit of spiritual tools
The idea that somehow, someday he will control and enjoy his drinking is the great ________ of every abnormal drinker.
What is: obsession.
This is the how and the why of it. First of all, we had to quit playing...
What is: God.
Much to our relief, we discovered we did not need to consider another's __________ of God.
What is: conception
Therefore, the main problem of the alcoholic centers in his mind, ____________________.
Finish this sentence: Our very lives, as ex-problem drinkers, depend upon our constant thought of others and how we...
What is: may help meet their needs.
We are convinced to a man that alcoholics of our type are in the grip of a _________ ____________.
What is: progressive illness.
The Fabric of our existence was shot through with this...
What is : Fear
What is: Slow
The fact is that most alcoholics, for reasons yet obscure, have lost the power of _______ in drink.
What is: choice
The tremendous fact for every one of us is that we have discovered a _______ __________.
What is: Common Solution
No person likes to think he is bodily and mentally different from his _________.
What is: fellows.
The first requirement is that we be convinced that any life run on ____-_____ can hardly be a success.
What is: Self-Will.
When we saw others solve their problems by a simple reliance upon the _______ __ ____ _______, we had to stop doubting the power of God.
What is: Spirit of the Universe
One was to go on to the bitter end, blotting out the consciousness of our intolerable situation as best we could; and the other, to accept __________ help.
What is: spiritual
Further on, ________ ____________ are given showing how we recovered.
Fred's Story-
Though I had been only a nominal churchman, their proposals were not, intellectually, hard to swallow. But the program of action, though entirely sensible, was pretty _________.
The _______ and the _______ were not for us. They may be the dubious luxury of normal men, but for alcoholics these things are poison.
What is: The Grouch and The Brainstorm.
If that be the case, you may be suffering from an illness which only a __________ ________ will conquer.
What is: spiritual experience