And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, or situation - some fact of my life - unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing, or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment. Nothing, absoulutly nothing happens in God world by mistake. Until I accept my alcoholism, I could not stay sober; unless I accept life completely on life's terms, I cannot be happy.
I need to concentrate not so much on what needs to be changed in the world as on what needs to be changed in me and my attitudes.
As a recovering A, I find this very helpful to read daily.
As a member of Al-Anon, I find that if I change "accepting my alcoholism " to accepting my A's alcoholism and the 3 C's, this remindes me that I am powerless over him & this horrid disease which is affecting him.
Hope this if insightful to others as it is to me.
Yours in Recovery
Kathy570
nmike said
Aug 5, 2005
Thanks Kathy. Up early thinking about my A and wondering what I did wrong. Well, I need to know that acceptance of him and where he is at is the key to my happiness.
Acceptance
Pg 449 from the AA Big Book
And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, or situation - some fact of my life - unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing, or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment. Nothing, absoulutly nothing happens in God world by mistake. Until I accept my alcoholism, I could not stay sober; unless I accept life completely on life's terms, I cannot be happy.
I need to concentrate not so much on what needs to be changed in the world as on what needs to be changed in me and my attitudes.
As a recovering A, I find this very helpful to read daily.
As a member of Al-Anon, I find that if I change "accepting my alcoholism " to accepting my A's alcoholism and the 3 C's, this remindes me that I am powerless over him & this horrid disease which is affecting him.
Hope this if insightful to others as it is to me.
Yours in Recovery
Kathy570
Thanks Kathy. Up early thinking about my A and wondering what I did wrong. Well, I need to know that acceptance of him and where he is at is the key to my happiness.
Nancy