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                                     running the show, humbly saying to ourselves many
                                     times each day “Thy will be done.’’ We are then in
                                     much less danger of excitement, fear, anger, worry,
                                     self-pity, or foolish decisions. We become much more
                                     efficient. We do not tire so easily, for we are not
                                     burning up energy foolishly as we did when we were
                                     trying to arrange life to suit ourselves.
                                       It works—it really does.
                                       We alcoholics are undisciplined. So we let God
                                     discipline us in the simple way we have just outlined.
                                       But this is not all. There is action and more action.
                                     “Faith without works is dead.’’ The next chapter is
                                     entirely devoted to Step Twelve.
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