{"id":937,"date":"2007-02-22T16:31:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-22T16:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/chatteringmind\/2007\/02\/britney-stay-in-rehab.html"},"modified":"2007-02-22T16:31:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-22T16:31:00","slug":"britney-stay-in-rehab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/chatteringmind\/2007\/02\/britney-stay-in-rehab.html","title":{"rendered":"Britney, Stay in Rehab!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Britney, get into a rehabilitation program you can stick with! Read the “promises” <\/a>of Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous (from pages 83-84 of The Big Book<\/a>). They supplement the famous Twelve Steps<\/a>. <\/p>\n

If anyone out there has “worked the program,” chime in and tell us if AA’s promises came true for you. Here they are in all their glory: <\/p>\n

If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through. <\/p>\n

We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness. <\/p>\n

We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it. <\/p>\n

We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace. <\/p>\n

No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others. <\/p>\n

That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear. <\/p>\n

We will lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in our fellows. <\/p>\n

Self-seeking will slip away. <\/p>\n

Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change. <\/p>\n

Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us. <\/p>\n

We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us. <\/p>\n

We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves.<\/em><\/p>\n

“Are these extravagant promises? We think not,” the Big Book claims. “They will always materialize if we work for them.”<\/p>\n

Are you wishing Spears the best?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Britney, get into a rehabilitation program you can stick with! Read the “promises” of Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous (from pages 83-84 of The Big Book). They supplement the famous Twelve Steps. If anyone out there has “worked the program,” chime in and tell us if AA’s promises came true for you. 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