Post by Susan Peabody on Feb 18, 2024 4:47:27 GMT -8
Dear Susan:
Sometimes all we can do is what the Big Book suggests in Chapter 5:
“This was our course: We realized that the people who wronged us were perhaps spiritually sick. Though we did not like their symptoms and the way they disturbed us, they, like ourselves, were sick too. We asked God to help us show them the same tolerance, pity, and patience that we would cheerfully grant a sick friend. When a person offended us we said to ourselves, “This is a sick man. How can I be helpful to him? God save me from being angry. Thy will be done.”
"We avoid retaliation or arguments. We wouldn’t treat sick people that way. If we do, we destroy our chance of being helpful. We cannot be helpful to all people, but at least God will show us how to take a kindly and tolerant view of each and every one.”
Excerpt From: AA World Services, Inc. “Alcoholics Anonymous.”