My attitude toward the pain in my life will determine how I experience it. Pain is not the worst thing which can befall me.
Not being able to feel is worse.
Pain is a natural part of life. It is not meant to diminish my life or me. Only if I resist it is my life made smaller and my misery increased. My happiness and my pain can live together in me.
TODAY I PRAY
Help me to accept the things I cannot change.
TODAY I WILL REMEMBER
I can enjoy my life even though I may have pain.
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* We eventually realize that just as the pains of alcoholism had to come before sobriety, emotional turmoil comes before serenity. *