From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
EMERGENCY occurs
3 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
1.
... emergency.
12&12 p.70,
Step Seven
Without it, they cannot
live to much
useful purpose, or, in
adversity, be able to
summon the
faith that can
meet any
emergency.
2.
... emergency.
12&12 p.75,
Step Seven
We
began to get over the
idea
that the
Higher Power was a
sort of
bush-
league pinch hitter, to be called upon only in an
emergency.
3.
... emergency, but
at first many of us ...
12&12 p.96,
Step Eleven
To be
sure, we
feel it is
something that might
help us to
meet an
occasional emergency, but at
first many of us
are
apt to
regard it as a
somewhat
mysterious skill of
clergymen, from
which we may
hope to get a
secondhand benefit.
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