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There is only one key, and it is called willingness. ~Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions

Releasing our reservations about recovery is the first step to finding the keys to our own personal kingdom. And releasing our reservations is called “willingness.” None of us can claim true willingness, however, if we place conditions on what we are willing to accept in recovery. Our Higher Power may want us to delve deeper into our character than we want to, or do types of service work that we don’t like. It is acceptance of where we came from, where we are going, and what God’s will is for us—acceptance without reservation—that becomes true willingness. Willingness opens many doors in a strong recovery. It is of no use to accept God’s will in our lives if we reserve the right not to accept what we don’t like! Strength lies within willingness. Self-will lies in the reservations.

I set my reservations aside, fully accepting

God’s will, so that my “willingness” is

not actually “self-willingness.”

If I had only been willing to change my lifestyle, I could have had a life worth living so much sooner.

∼Chemically Dependent Anonymous P 362