From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... intention for
us.
12&12 p.40,
Step Three
We had tried to bombard
our problems with it instead of attempting to
bring it into agreement
with God's intention for us.
2.
... intention of
drinking.
BB p.36,
More About Alcoholism
3.
... intention to
create such an impression, many ...
BB p.567(569),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
Though it was not our intention to create such an impression, many alcoholics have nevertheless concluded that in order to
recover they must acquire an immediate and
overwhelming "God-consciousness" followed at once by a vast change in feeling and outlook.
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