Extravagant Promises

Are these extravagant promises? We think not. They are being fulfilled among us sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. They will always materialize if we work for them. Big Book, p84
They will always materialize if we work for them. 

If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through. We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness. We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it. We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace. No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others. That feeling of uselessness and selfpity will disappear. We will lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in our fellows. Self-seeking will slip away. Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change. Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us. We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us. We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves.
My experience has shown that these promises do come true.  I have been amazed.  I know peace, which for me is freedom.  I don't regret my past and I am open to talking about it.  I just don't want to wallow in it.  My experience benefits others as long as I keep sponsoring and paying it forward.  I care about other people.   I have less fear of people and of economic insecurity.  I have had some beautiful intuitive insights into things I would have made mountains out of in my former life.  And I know, without a doubt that God does for me what I cannot do for myself.  These are facts for me and I believe that these are also based on maintenance of my spiritual condition. 
Thank You Higher Power.  Thank You for these promises.  Thank You for inspiring Bill W. to write them.  Thank You for the hope, faith, life and love you have given me and my Fellow alcoholics.  Thank You.