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SERENITY   occurs   11 times 4 in BB  •  7 in 12&12 Definition in Merriam-Webster Online
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1.
  ... serenity.  BB How It Works, p.68
Just to the extent that we do as we think He would have us, and humbly rely on Him, does He enable us to match calamity with serenity.


2.
  ... serenity.  12&12 Step Seven, p.74
Where humility had formerly stood for a forced feeding on humble pie, it now begins to mean the nourishing ingredient which can give us serenity.


3.
  ... serenity.  12&12 Step Ten, pp.93-94
How heartily we A.A.'s can agree with him, for we know that the pains of drinking had to come before sobriety, and emotional turmoil before serenity.


4.
  ... serenity?  12&12 Step Twelve, p.112
Can we accept poverty, sickness, loneliness, and bereavement with courage and serenity?


5.
  ... serenity.  12&12 Tradition Four, p.148
Confusion replaced serenity.


6.
  ... serenity and we will know peace.  BB Into Action, pp.83-84
We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace.


7.
  ... serenity are so combined, something else of ...  12&12 Step Five, p.62
And when humility and serenity are so combined, something else of great moment is apt to occur.


8.
  ... serenity as I had never known.  BB Bill's Story, p.14
There was a sense of victory, followed by such a peace and serenity as I had never known.


9.
  ... serenity to accept the things I cannot ...  12&12 Step Three, pp.40-41
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."


10.
  ... serenity to accept the things we cannot ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.125
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.


11.
  ... serenity until I accept that person, place, ...  BB Acceptance, p.417
When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing or situation -- some fact of my life -- unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment.


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