From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
GIFT occurs
12 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
1.
... gift.
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
To those of us who have
hitherto known only
excitement,
depression, or
anxiety
-- in other
words, to all of us -- this
newfound peace is a
priceless gift.
2.
... gift?
12&12 p.164,
Tradition Seven
The
question was: Should
A.A. take the
gift?
3.
... gift, and
yet usually, at least in ...
12&12 p.107,
Step Twelve
What he has
received is a
free gift, and
yet usually, at
least in some
small part, he has made himself
ready to
receive it.
4.
... gift for
our own destruction?
12&12 p.117,
Step Twelve
So our
question will be this: How, by
ignorance,
compulsion,
and
self-will, do we
misuse
this
gift for our
own destruction?
5.
... gift from
God, and its bestowal upon ...
12&12 p.151,
Tradition Five
This is our
gift from
God, and
its bestowal upon others
like us is the one
aim that
today animates A.A.'s all around the
globe.
6.
... gift lies
in the practice of the ...
12&12 p.107,
Step Twelve
7.
... gift of
faith, a faith which works.
12&12 p.30,
Step Two
When we
began to do that, we
received the
gift of
faith, a
faith which
works.
8.
... gift of
sobriety unless we give it ...
12&12 p.151,
Tradition Five
It is the
great paradox of
A.A. that we
know we can
seldom keep the
precious gift of
sobriety unless we
give it away.
9.
... gift to
the slippee was an ego-feeding ...
12&12 p.163,
Tradition Seven
I
realized that my
five-
dollar gift to the
slippee was an
ego-
feeding proposition,
bad for him and
bad for me.
10.
... gift to
us would be spent aimlessly.
12&12 p.129,
Tradition One
Without
unity, the
heart of
A.A. would
cease to
beat; our
world arteries would no
longer carry the
life-
giving grace of
God; His
gift to us would be
spent aimlessly.
11.
... gift unless
he gives it away.
12&12 p.130,
Tradition One
Moreover, he
finds he cannot
keep this
priceless gift unless he
gives it away.
12.
... gift which
amounts to a new state ...
12&12 p.107,
Step Twelve
He has been
granted a
gift
which
amounts to a new
state of
consciousness
and being.
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