From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... calamities in
his immediate family embittered and ...
BB p.56,
We Agnostics
Business failure, insanity, fatal illness, suicide -- these
calamities in his immediate family embittered and depressed him.
2.
... calamities into
assets, sources of growth and ...
12&12 p.113,
Step Twelve
Can we transform these calamities into assets, sources of growth and comfort to ourselves and
those about us?
3.
... calamities which
come to so many?
12&12 p.113,
Step Twelve
Have we alcoholics in A.A.
got, or can we get, the resources to meet these
calamities which come to so many?
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