From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
PRESENCE occurs
9 times
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1.
... Presence and
Power of God within its ...
BB p.162,
A Vision For You
Many of us have
felt, for the
first time, the
Presence and
Power of
God within its walls.
2.
... presence can
bring.
12&12 p.110,
Step Twelve
We
sit in
A.A. meetings and
listen, not
only to
receive something ourselves, but to
give the
reassurance and
support which our
presence
can bring.
3.
... presence had
been blotted out by worldly ...
BB p.12,
Bill's Story
But soon the
sense of His
presence had been
blotted out by
worldly clamors, mostly
those
within myself.
4.
... presence of
a loving God in their ...
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.
5.
... presence of
God.
12&12 p.62,
Step Five
Many an
A.A., once
agnostic
or
atheistic, tells us that it was during this
stage of
Step Five that he
first actually felt the
presence of
God.
6.
... Presence of
God.
BB p.56,
We Agnostics
In a few
seconds he was
overwhelmed by a
conviction of the
Presence
of
God.
7.
... Presence of
God is today the most ...
BB p.51,
We Agnostics
When many
hundreds of people are able to say that
the
consciousness of the
Presence of
God is
today the most
important fact of their
lives, they
present a
powerful reason why one should have
faith.
8.
... Presence of
Infinite Power and Love.
BB p.56,
We Agnostics
He
stood in the
Presence of
Infinite Power and
Love.
9.
... presence, we
began to lose our fear ...
BB p.63,
How It Works
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