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December 2005

Are We Doing Enough?

An AA looks at the changing face of Twelfth-Step work

I've heard this comment a lot lately: "I am going through the work again." In fact, I heard it again last night at my home group. I guess the people who say this mean they are taking the Steps again, but the work, as I understand it, is not in the Steps themselves, the mechanics of them, or the taking of them. The work is in the Twelfth Step, where we take the message to the alcoholic who still suffers and we practice the principles in all our affairs. That's about all the work any of us can ever really do, and, at the end of the day, is the only work really worth doing.

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