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Post Info TOPIC: JFT June 16 Accepting life


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JFT June 16 Accepting life


"Some things we must accept, others we can change.  The wisdom to know the difference comes with growth in our spiritual program."

Basic Text, p. 95

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It's relatively easy to accept the things we like--it's the things we don't like that are hard to accept.  But remaking the world and everyone in it to suit our tastes would solve nothing.  After all, the idea that the world was to blame for all our problems was the attitude that kept us using--and that attitude nearly killed us.

In the course of working the steps, we begin to ask ourselves hard questions about the roles we ourselves have played in creating the unacceptable lives we've lived.  In most cases, we've found that what needed changing was our own attitude and our own actions, not the people, places, and things around us.

In recovery, we pray for wisdom to know the difference between what can and cant be changed.  Then, once we see the truth of our situation, we pray for the willingness to change ourselves.

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Just for today:  Higher Power, grant me the wisdom to know the difference between what can be changed and what I must accept.  Please help me gratefully accept the life I've been given.

 



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