From the Grass Roots

WHEN I joined AA for the second time about two years ago--the first time being three years previously, but in a spirit far from sincere and consequently ineffective--I was attracted to the simple short serenity prayer, but a little uncertain as to its real meaning. Maybe others felt the same at first. The full significance of the words "the courage to change the things I can" were not fully appreciated. It is only after many months of trying to live the quality of life the Twelve AA Steps put before us, particularly as found in Steps Three and Eleven, that I am beginning to grasp the deeper meaning of these words, at any rate as I understand them.