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THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENED at a meeting of our home group, during a discussion on tolerance and patience. One of our members, John, told about returning home from work one afternoon, very tired and irritable, to find his three young daughters squeezed around the kitchen stove preparing supper. One was making toasted sandwiches, another cooking a pudding, while the third was perking the coffee--all this to the accompaniment of considerable mess, shoving, and loud bickering over space and priority. And just as John was taking in the scene, the wall phone alongside the kitchen range began to ring--so he walked right into his bedroom, shut the door, and began repeating the Serenity Prayer.