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“Abandon yourself to God as you understand God. Admit your faults to Him and to your fellows. Clear away the wreckage of your past. Give freely of what you find and join us.”
“Abandon yourself to God as you understand God. Admit your faults to Him and to your fellows. Clear away the wreckage of your past. Give freely of what you find and join us.” — Alcoholics Anonymous (1939) · Chapter 11 · A Vision For YouWhere it comes from
The final charge of the 1939 book — the closing lines of its last chapter.
Today’s reflectionFour imperatives, one sentence each: abandon, admit, clear away, give freely. The whole program compressed into a send-off. Notice the order ends in giving — the book’s last instruction isn’t about staying sober, it’s about handing the thing on, because the founders knew those were the same act. Wherever you are in the sequence today, the door is the same one. “Join us” was never past tense.
Read the original passage · A Vision for You, 1939 →Step 12 · The whole programQuote from the 1939 first edition of Alcoholics Anonymous (public domain). Reflection original to houstonsober.com. This site is independent and not affiliated with or endorsed by Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.
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