Keeping it real have you ever took and really looked at what the 9th step promises are page 83 bottom paragraph of the big book is for they start at in this paragraph of the 9th step promises if we are painstaking about this phase of our development will be amazed before we are halfway through we're going to know a new freedom and a new happiness this insinuates that freedom and happiness has already begun we will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it the very thing that I used over it's going to bring me freedom and happiness it's no longer holds me hostage we will, comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace think about what it just said Serenity and peace are two different entities we will see how our experience can benefit others the experience that we've had up until this point and I'm learning how to live the spiritual principles that feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear I will have purpose and confident we will lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in our fellows it's all about service self-seeking will slip away it will no longer be all about me fear of people and economic insecurity will leave us I will know how to be social and manage my finances we will until you know how to handle situations which used to baffle us I will respond instead of reacting we will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves that power greater than me are these extravagant promises you have to experience them to be able to say they are not they are being fulfilled Among Us sometimes quickly sometimes slowly meaning that God gives us what we need when we need it here's a promise the inside of that promise they will always materialize on one condition if we work for them we have an obligation or responsibility