If you read my last post (if not, please do) you will read that I asked to be reminded of the word "acceptance." Anyone in recovery knows this following quotation, almost as a code to live by and can readily site page and volume. It is something for all of us, so I share it here.
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"And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing 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, absolutely nothing happens in God's world by mistake. Until I could 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 in my attitudes."
From "Alcoholics Anonymous" Volume 4, pg. 417
