Since this program is based on the 12 steps of AA, and I went through the steps in AA, I still read a lot of AA literature even though I do not consider myself an alcoholic.
I love the 9th step promises and found most of them to be true for me, all except for 15 actually. I don't believe anyone else is responsible for the condition my life is in ... perhaps not humble enough but it is my truth. Other than that - I have had every promise come true simply by being willing and working the steps with rigorous honesty.
The promises associated with step nine:
If our manner is calm, frank, and open, we will be gratified with the result. (78)
In nine cases out of ten the unexpected happens. Sometimes the man we are calling upon admits his own faults, so feuds of years' standing melt away in an hour. (78)
Rarely do we fail to make satisfactory progress. (78)
If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through. (83)
We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness. (83)
We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it. (83)
We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace. (83)
No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others.(84)
That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear. (84)
We will lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in our fellows.
Self-seeking will slip away.(84)
Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change. (84)
Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us. (84)
We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us. (84)
We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves. (84)
Are these extravagant promises? We think not. They are being fulfilled among ussometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. They will always materialize if we work for them. (84)
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Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you. ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned. ~St. Francis of Assisi