Big Book Passage of the Day- 3/30

[c'est la vie]

For the first installment of this new daily thread I thought I would post the passage that was asked about by Brandi recently. It's a short but very pointed message of ACCEPTANCE. Please feel free to share your thoughts or experiences with regards to the topic.




"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 so 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."

**Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th edition, p417 from "Acceptance was the Answer"**