Serenity Helps Us Cope

We treasure our "Serenity Prayer" because it brings a new light to us that can dissipate our oldtime and nearly fatal habit of fooling ourselves.

In the radiance of this prayer we see that defeat, rightly accepted, need be no disaster. We now know that we do not have to run away, nor ought we again try to overcome adversity by still another bulldozing power drive that can only push up obstacles before us faster than they can be taken down.

c. 1967 AAWS, As Bill Sees It, p. 20
Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.

Thought to Ponder . . .

Serenity is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.