From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
LOVING occurs
13 times
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1.
... loving and
All Powerful Creator.
BB p.161,
A Vision For You
They had
visioned the
Great Reality -- their
loving and All
Powerful Creator.
2.
... loving and
powerful hand of God.
BB p.28,
There Is A Solution
What
seemed at
first a
flimsy reed, has
proved to be the
loving and
powerful hand of
God.
3.
... loving and
understanding companionship among women who ...
BB p.160,
A Vision For You
4.
... loving God
as He may express Himself ...
12&12 p.132,
Tradition Two
"For our
group purpose
there is but one
ultimate authority -- a
loving God as He may
express Himself
in our
group conscience.
5.
... loving God
as He may express Himself ...
12&12 p.132,
Tradition Two
These
practical folk then
read Tradition Two, and
learn that the
sole authority in
A.A. is a
loving God as He may
express Himself
in the
group conscience.
6.
... loving God
as He may express Himself ...
12&12 p.189,
Tradition Two (Long)
Two -- For our
group purpose there is but one
ultimate authority -- a
loving God as He may
express Himself in our
group
conscience.
7.
... loving God
as He may express Himself ...
BB p.562(564),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
Two -- For our
group purpose there is but one
ultimate authority -- a
loving God as He may
express Himself in our
group
conscience.
8.
... loving God
as He may express Himself ...
BB p.563(565),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
2. For our
group purpose
there is but one
ultimate authority -- a
loving God as He may
express Himself
in our
group conscience.
9.
... loving God
in their lives -- these things ...
12&12 p.110,
Step Twelve
To
watch the
eyes of
men and
women open with
wonder as they
move from
darkness into
light, to see their
lives quickly fill with new
purpose and
meaning, to see
whole families reassembled, to see the
alcoholic outcast received back into his
community in
full citizenship, and above all to
watch these people
awaken to
the
presence of a
loving
God in their
lives -- these
things are the
substance of what we
receive as we
carry A.A.'s
message to the
next alcoholic.
10.
... loving His
sway might be.
BB p.12,
Bill's Story
I could go for such
conceptions as
Creative Intelligence,
Universal Mind or
Spirit of
Nature but I
resisted the
thought of a
Czar of the
Heavens,
however
loving His
sway might
be.
11.
... loving kindness
is to let by-gones be ...
BB p.82,
Into Action
It may be that both will
decide that the way of
good sense and
loving kindness is to let by-
gones be by-
gones.
12.
... loving of
a few, can ignore the ...
12&12 p.93,
Step Ten
The
idea that we can be
possessively loving of a
few, can
ignore the many, and can
continue to
fear or
hate anybody, has to be
abandoned, if only a
little at a
time.
13.
... loving toward
all?
BB p.86,
Into Action
Were we
kind and
loving toward all?
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