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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
HANDS occurs
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1.
... hands.
BB p.114,
To Wives
You may have the
reverse situation on your
hands.
2.
... hands.
BB p.120,
To Wives
If a
repetition is to be
prevented, place the
problem, along with
everything else, in
God's
hands.
3.
... hands had
stretched out in welcome.
BB p.53,
We Agnostics
4.
... hands in
discouragement, for I saw that ...
BB p.138,
To Employers
5.
... hands in
doubt and said, "We don't ...
BB p.53,
We Agnostics
Hence we are at
pains to tell why we
think our
present faith is
reasonable, why
we
think it more
sane and
logical to
believe than not
to
believe, why we say our
former thinking was
soft and
mushy when we
threw up our
hands in
doubt and said, "We don't
know."
6.
... hands or
he would soon start drinking ...
BB p.80,
Into Action
He saw that he had to place the
outcome in
God's
hands or he would soon
start drinking again, and
all would be
lost anyhow.
7.
... hands out.
12&12 p.160,
Tradition Seven
Always, we've had our hands out.
8.
... hands, the
dark past is the greatest ...
BB p.124,
The Family Afterward
Cling to the
thought that,
in
God's
hands, the
dark past is the
greatest possession you
have -- the
key to
life and
happiness for others.
9.
... hands --
there are doors of opportunity ahead ...
BB p.572(574),
Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A.
I
suspect that if it is
wisely handled -- and it
seems to be in
wise and
prudent hands -- there are
doors of
opportunity ahead of this
project that
may
surpass our
capacities to
imagine."
10.
... hands, this
seldom takes long nor is ...
BB p.143,
To Employers
In
competent hands, this
seldom takes long nor is it very
expensive.
11.
... hands us
a great big lump that ...
12&12 p.113,
Step Twelve
Then perhaps
life, as it has a way of doing,
suddenly hands us a
great big lump that we can't
begin to
swallow, let alone
digest.
12.
... hands were
better than anything we could ...
BB p.100,
Working With Others
When we
look back, we
realize that the things which
came to us when we
put ourselves
in
God's
hands were
better than anything we could have
planned.
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