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Accepting that we are powerless seems difficult at first.

We have felt responsible for so many people for so long that giving up our control scares us. What will they do? Perhaps the more important question is, what will we do? Where do we put our focus when we no longer put it on others?

We probably didn't understand the meaning or the value of the Serenity Prayer when we were first introduced to it. We had spent most of our lives forcing change, or at least trying to. Accepting conditions or the people we loved as they were was beyond our comprehension. After all, wouldn't they want to change if they could see themselves as we saw them?

Now we are coming to understand our powerlessness. The glimpses we get no longer scare us. Not being in charge of others anymore also means we are not to blame for their shortcomings. And that part of powerlessness we like.

I will enjoy my powerlessness today. “Giving up” the behavior of others will lighten my own load considerably.

—from A Life of My Own