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November 1978

What Is Acceptance?

By: Bill W.
From the March 1962 Grapevine

ONE WAY to get at the meaning of the principle of acceptance is to meditate upon it in the context of AA's much-used prayer: "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference."

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