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What a blessing, these stories from our companions in AA! For when we came to Alcoholics Anonymous, that is exactly what we heard—tales of the journeys those who were here before us had taken from the darkness of alcoholism into the fullness of new light.

Listening to such stories, freely given, how could anyone not be stirred? We wanted what we could see, however dimly, what these storytellers had. Some among us plunged right into a new life; others moved more slowly. But for all of us, the more we listened, really listened, the more a change came on.

We tried to live the Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous, and the change became more focused—a coming to life, an arousal, if you will, of some part of ourselves lying dormant all these years, perhaps an entire lifetime. So our search began.

For help we turned to our friends, to our sponsors, to readings inside and outside AA. And as we persisted, we began to find something, hard to pin down, at first—a sense that all our seeking now brought with it the dawning of arrival.

We found ourselves going about our many daily tasks with a different slant on things. Indeed, for some of us the world may have begun to seem entirely new. Oh, our old habits often banged into the new, but even so we found that life without alcohol, without some constantly beckoning spree, could be lived fully, joyfully, whatever came our way.

These, then, are our stories, our spiritual awakenings.

The Editors