"Furthermore, how shall we come to terms with seeming failure of success? Can we now accept and adjust to either without despair or pride? Can we accept poverty, sickness, loneliness, and bereavement with courage and serenity? Can we steadfastly content ourselves with the humbler, yet sometimes more durable, satisfactions when the brighter, more glittering achievments are denied us?
The A.A. answer to these questions about living is "Yes, all of these things are possible." We know this because we see monotony, pain, and even calamity turned to good use by those who keep on trying to practice A.A.'s Twelve Steps. And if these are facts of life for the many alcoholics who have recovered in A. A., they can become tha facts of life for many more."
Read this part of Step 12 yesterday, in a meeting, and every word seemed to jump off the page, went home and read, and re-read it. So much wisdom, and promise to those of us that keep trying to work these steps. They are not easy, but they are Simple.
me too.. some of the old timers give examples to us of people in recovery who have very difficult things happen in their lives that they deal with serenely because they are in recovery.
amanda
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do your best and God does the rest, a step at a time
