The Choice Is Ours

IN our fellowship we hear much about serenity and our need to achieve it, if the high road of sobriety is to be reached. We also hear much about honesty and our need to search for truth continuously, particularly about ourselves. The latter is found in our original admission and surrender, in our fearless moral self-inventory and our continuing inventory under Step Ten. The former is best exemplified by our prayer in which we seek courage to change, serenity to accept and wisdom to know the difference. The two great hurdles in our Serenity Prayer have to do with the development of a fine sense of acceptance, and the wisdom to know the difference. Somehow the courage to change the things we can and should change, difficult as it may sometimes seem, is, in the main, a simple achievement when compared with the grace of acceptance and the wisdom to distinguish.