Sanctuary of the Twelve Steps

IN ALMOST three years continuous sobriety, thanks to AA, I have listened to many talks in the intimacy of closed meetings. I try to weigh them with sympathetic understanding. Some do not accept even Tradition Three; some seem to rest on Tradition Three alone; and those who accept Tradition Two and Three appear to believe, as I do, in the entire AA Program. On that delicate subject of belief, I find the "12 Steps" to be all-inclusive, and I never fail to pay a silent salute to its authors. The area within the periphery of that all-inclusiveness is a sanctuary for all manner of beliefs, where harmony will be found, provided disparagement of any particular belief be prayerfully avoided.