Through our inability to accept personal responsibilities, we were actually creating our own problems.
Basic Text, p. 13
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When we refuse to take responsibility for our lives, we give away all of our personal power. We need to remember that we are powerless over our addiction, not our personal behavior.
Many of us have misused the concept of powerlessness to avoid making decisions or to hold onto things we had outgrown. We have claimed powerlessness over our own actions. We have blamed others for our circumstances rather than taking positive action to change those circumstances. If we continue to avoid responsibility by claiming that we are powerless, we set ourselves up for the same despair and misery we experienced in our active addiction. The potential for spending our recovery years feeling like victims is very real.
Instead of living our lives by default, we can learn how to make responsible choices and take risks. We may make mistakes, but we can learn from these mistakes. A heightened awareness of ourselves and an increased willingness to accept personal responsibility gives us the freedom to change, to make choices, and to grow.
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Just for today: My feelings, actions, and choices are mine. I will accept responsibility for them.
...yes,,a good place to think of the serenity prayer,,always remembering that it is my responsibility to change that which I can,that which is within myself!.....
. Gawd,grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
. the courage to change those things I can,,,and the wisdom to know the difference
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...gawd,,,please don't let me -ever- forget why I came here in the first place!!(my 'senility' prayer)
