From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... grant a
sick friend.
BB p.67,
How It Works
We asked God to help us show them the same tolerance, pity, and patience that we
would cheerfully grant a
sick friend.
2.
... "Grant me
my wishes" instead of "Thy ...
12&12 p.32,
Step Two
3.
Grant me
strength, as I go out ...
BB p.76,
Into Action
4.
... grant me
the serenity to accept the ...
12&12 p.41,
Step Three
In all times of emotional disturbance
or indecision, we can pause, ask for quiet, and in the stillness
simply say: "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. Thy will, not mine, be done."
5.
... grant that
I may seek rather to ...
12&12 p.99,
Step Eleven
Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort than to be comforted -- to understand, than to be understood -- to love, than
to be loved.
6.
... grant us
the serenity to accept the ...
12&12 p.125,
Step Twelve
God grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, Courage to change the things we can, And wisdom to
know the difference.
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