From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... Creator.
12&12 p.63,
Step Six
He goes on to explain that
any person capable of enough willingness and honesty
to try repeatedly Step Six on all his faults -- without any reservations whatever -- has indeed come a long way spiritually, and is therefore entitled to be
called a man who is sincerely trying to grow in the image and likeness of his own Creator.
2.
... Creator.
12&12 p.98,
Step Eleven
And we will be comforted
and assured that our own destiny in that realm will be secure for so long as we try, however falteringly, to find and
do the will of our own Creator.
3.
... Creator.
BB p.56,
We Agnostics
4.
... Creator.
BB p.68,
How It Works
5.
... Creator.
BB p.75,
Into Action
6.
... Creator.
BB p.161,
A Vision For You
7.
... Creator, and
said he was perfectly willing ...
BB p.158,
A Vision For You
On the third day the lawyer gave his life to the care and direction of his Creator,
and said he was perfectly
willing to do anything
necessary.
8.
... Creator, and
to discover the obstacles in ...
BB p.72,
Into Action
We have been trying to get a
new attitude, a new relationship with our
Creator, and to discover
the obstacles in our path.
9.
... Creator's desire
to give them new life.
12&12 p.64,
Step Six
Here their powerful instinct to live can cooperate fully with their
Creator's desire to give them new life.
10.
... Creator expects
us fully to eliminate our ...
12&12 p.65,
Step Six
It is nowhere evident,
at least in this life, that
our Creator expects us fully to eliminate our instinctual drives.
11.
... Creator gave
us our lives in the ...
12&12 p.59,
Step Five
If the Creator gave us our lives in the first place, then He must know in every detail where we have since gone
wrong.
12.
... Creator guilty
of such ruinous slander.
BB p.80,
Into Action
After consulting with
his wife and partner he came to the conclusion that
it was better to take those risks than to stand before his Creator guilty of such ruinous slander.
13.
... Creator has
entered into our hearts and ...
BB p.25,
There Is A Solution
The central fact of our lives today is the absolute certainty that
our Creator has entered
into our hearts and lives
in a way which is indeed miraculous.
14.
... Creator, I
am now willing that you ...
BB p.76,
Into Action
When ready, we say something like this: "My
Creator, I am now willing that you should have all of me, good and bad.
15.
... Creator show
us the way of patience, ...
BB p.83,
Into Action
So we clean house with the
family, asking each morning in meditation that our Creator
show us the way of patience, tolerance, kindliness and love.
16.
... Creator; that
I would have the elements ...
BB p.13,
Bill's Story
My friend promised when
these things were done I
would enter upon a new relationship with my
Creator; that I would have the elements of a way of living which answered all
my problems.
17.
... Creator with
whom we may form a ...
BB p.28,
There Is A Solution
If what we have learned and felt and seen means anything at all, it means that all of us, whatever our race, creed, or color are the children of a living Creator with whom we may form a relationship upon simple and understandable terms
as soon as we are willing
and honest enough to try.
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