Alcoholics Anonymous
Acceptance Prayer
(A.A. Big Book) Page 417
Acceptance is the answer to ALL of 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 my 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.
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The Promises
(A.A Big Book) Bottom of Page 83
If we are painstaking about this phase of our development,
we will be amazed before we are half way through. We are going to know a
new freedom and a new happiness. We will not regret the past nor wish
to shut the door on it. We will comprehend the word serenity and we will
know peace. No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see
how our experience can benefit others. That feeling of uselessness and
self-pity will disappear. We will lose interest in selfish things and
gain interest in our fellows. Self-seeking will slip away; our whole
attitude and outlook upon life will change. Fear of people and of
economic insecurity will leave us. We will intuitively know how to
handle situations which used to baffle us. We will suddenly realize that
God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves.
Are
these extravagant promises? We think not. They are being fulfilled among
us-sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. They will always materialize if
we work for them.
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A Vision for You
(A.A Big Book) Page 164
Our book is meant to be suggestive only. We realize we
know only a little. God will constantly disclose more to you and to us.
Ask Him in your morning meditation what you can do each day for the man
who is still sick. The answers will come, if your own house is in order.
But obviously you cannot transmit some-thing you haven’t got. See to it
that your relationship with Him is right, and great events will come to
pass for you and countless others. This is the Great Fact for us.
Abandon yourself to God as you understand God. Admit your faults to Him
and to your fellows. Clear away the wreckage of your past. Give freely
of what you find and join us. We shall be with you in the Fellowship of
the Spirit, and you will surely meet some of us as you trudge the Road
of Happy Destiny. May God bless you and keep you—until then.
After a moment of silence for the alcoholic who still
suffers within and outside these rooms, will you please join me in
(Readers’ Choice): the Lord's Prayer or the Serenity Prayer?
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Lords Prayer
Our
Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy Kingdom come. Thy
will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily
bread. And forgive us our trespasses, As we forgive them that trespass
against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom, The power, and the glory, For ever and ever.
Amen.
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Serenity Prayer (A.A. Big Book) Page 63
GOD, grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can;
and the Wisdom to know the difference.
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(Full Version)
Living one day at a time; enjoying one moment at a time; accepting
hardship as the pathway to peace. Taking, as He did, this sinful world
as it is, not as I would have it. Trusting that He will make all things
right if I surrender to His will; and that I may be reasonable happy in
this life, and supremely happy with Him in the next. Amen.
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Prayer of St. Francis (A.A. 12 & 12) Page 99
Lord, make me a channel
of thy peace; Where there is hatred, I may bring love; Where there is
wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness; Where there is discord, I
may bring harmony; Where there is error, I may bring truth; Where
there is doubt, I may bring faith; Where there is despair, I may bring
hope; Where there are shadows, I may bring light; Where there is
sadness, I may bring joy.
Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort than to be
comforted; to understand, than to be understood; to love, than to be
loved.
For it is by self-forgetting that one finds. It is by
forgiving that one is forgiven. It is by dying that one awakens to
eternal life.
Amen.
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