“Faith has to work twenty-four hours a day in and through us, or we perish.” — Alcoholics Anonymous (1939) · Chapter 1 · Bill's Story
From the closing pages of “Bill’s Story,” the first chapter of the 1939 book.
Faith here isn’t a Sunday thing or a crisis hotline — it’s described as a working shift that never ends. That sounds demanding until you flip it: something is on duty around the clock so you don’t have to be. The day still has to be lived an hour at a time, but it doesn’t have to be lived alone at any of them. What would the next hour look like if you actually believed backup was on shift?
Step 11 · Daily faith