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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
THANKFUL occurs
4 times
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1.
... thankful contemplation
of Him who presides over ...
12&12 p.192,
Tradition Twelve (Long)
This to the
end that our
great
blessings may
never spoil us; that we shall
forever live in
thankful contemplation of
Him who
presides over us all.
2.
... thankful contemplation
of Him who presides over ...
BB p.566(568),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
This to the
end that our
great
blessings may
never spoil us; that we shall
forever live in
thankful contemplation of
Him who
presides over us all.
3.
... thankful he
is sober and able to ...
BB p.127,
The Family Afterward
They should be
thankful he is
sober and able to be of this
world once more.
4.
... thankful I
could tell him, 'Nothing at ...
12&12 p.152,
Tradition Five
"I was
thankful I could tell him, '
Nothing at all.'
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