SERENITY AFTER THE STORM

Daily Reflections - OCTOBER 03

Someone who knew what he was talking about once remarked that pain was the touchstone of all spiritual progress. How heartily we A.A. 's can agree with him. . . .    TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, pp. 93-94

When   on   the  roller   coaster   of  emotional   turmoil,   I remember that growth is often painful. My evolution in the A.A.  program  has taught  me that  I must experience the inner change, however painful, that eventually guides me from selfishness to selflessness. If I am to have serenity, I must STEP my way past emotional turmoil and its subsequent   hangover,   and   be   grateful   for   continuing spiritual progress.