In every case, pain had been the price of
admission into a new life. But this admission price had purchased more
than we expected. It brought a measure of humility, which we soon
discovered to be a healer of pain.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p.
75
It was painful to give up trying to
control my life, even though success eluded me, and when life got too rough, I
drank to escape. Accepting life on life's terms will be mastered through
the humility I experience when I turn my will and my life over to the care of
God, as I understand Him.
With my life in God's care, fear, uncertainty, and
anger are no longer my response to those portions of life that I would rather
not have happen to me. The pain of living through these times will be
healed by the knowledge that I have received the spiritual strength to survive.
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