Adapted from an essay written by Emmet Fox. Emmet Spoke to the early AA people from his pulpit. The audience however was quite varied and his message was applicable to all who needed help
An All in Policy
What has your program done for you? For years probably you have been going to meetings, retreats, studying the big book, reading program literature or working with your sponsor. Now I suggest that you have a spiritual stock taking .Ask yourself what has your program done for you? What difference has it made your life? In your home? In your affairs? How much peace of mind has it given you? How much courage?, How much understanding?, How much opportunity for service? Make no mistake a real program does give all these things. If your spiritual stock taking does not turn out to be satisfactorily, if your program is not working in this way, If on examining your life you find there are a number of places at which you are not demonstrating ? If certain needs are still lacking to you? , if there are still negative things that refuse to go?, I believe that you will find the explanation to lay inThe following law. What you put into your program, that you get out of it. If you put 5% of yourself and your life into your program, you will receive a 5% dividend or demonstration. If you put 20% of yourself and your life into your program?, you will receive a 20% demonstration. And until you put 100% of yourself and your life into your program you will not receive a 100% demonstration. A complete all around demonstration requires an all in Policy
We all know how to plan our actions, but we aren't always able to carry them out as we had planned. That's because things happen that we don't plan, and those things cause us to react. How do you control your reactions? God has all the answers in His
