Alcoholics Anonymous, Fourth Edition

CHAPTER 6 - INTO ACTION

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.