The shock of disillusionment in AA

God will not permit us to live even for a brief period in a dream world or live on a pink cloud. He does not abandon us to those rapturous experiences and lofty moods that come over us like a dream. God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth. Only that fellowship which faces such disillusionment, with all its unhappy and ugly aspects, begins to be what it should be in God's sight, begins to grasp in faith the promise that is given to it.The sooner this shock of disillusionment comes to an individual and to a fellowship, the better for both.

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