Monday 15 October 2018

As Bill Sees It #essentialsofrecovery

MASTERING RESENTMENTS, p. 286

We began to see that the world and its people had really dominated us. Under that unhappy condition, the wrongdoing of others, fancied or real, had power to actually kill us, because we could be driven back to drink through resentment. We saw that these resentments must be mastered, but how? We could not wish them away.

This was our course: We realized that the people who wronged us were perhaps spiritually sick. So we asked God to help us show them the same tolerance, pity, and patience that we would cheerfully grant a sick friend.

Today, we avoid retaliation or argument. We cannot treat sick people that way. If we do, we destroy our chance of being helpful. We cannot be helpful to all people, but at least God will show us how to take a kindly and tolerant view of each and every one.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, pp. 66-67
Why not sign up to get emails with all daily posts included?
Or Follow Us On Twitter #essentialsofrecovery

No comments:

Post a Comment

I will not allow spam or back links to other sites as I can not moderate where these are going to.