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STEP TEN, PERSEVERANCE THE LADDER THAT FALLS THE HIGHEST WALLS
The Simplicity of the Twelve Steps- Step Ten (Perseverance)
And now our prospect, assuming their work has been honest and thorough, is a recovered alcoholic. Not a recovering alcoholic. They are recovered.
Powerful evidence of how far our organization has drifted from its original design is that one of our biggest ongoing debates in Alcoholics Anonymous is around a question whose answer is available on the title page of our basic text. We are debating a fact; a fact which is made clear multiple times in the very book which was written to explain what A.A. is and what A.A. isn’t.
People will ask, “So which side of the recovered/recovering debate are you on?” That’s like asking someone which side of the “sun sets in the east/sun sets in the west” debate they are on.
