These are what gave me hope, our group Freedom of Recovery had a Promises meeting on Friday nights, and we used the long version for the topic of discussion. A lot of people fought us about it saying it wasn't AA material, but it was registered and okayed by New York. I think because the man who wrote them was the man who wrote Twenty-Four Hours a Day (hardcover), and I met a lot of long-timers who considered it their Bible after the Big Book, they were worn, pages were coloured and lose and held together by an elastic band or two.
The promises have come true many times over in my life. I like the phrase, "We will be amazed before we are half way through (the Steps), because of having worked the Steps, we change although we are not the first ones to see, but for me, on the most part it was "a feel" that my God was with me and I wasn't alone.
