Surrender

15 years ago this Day I surrendered so that I may live


And we have ceased fighting anything or anyone —even alcohol.

For by this time sanity will have returned.

We will seldom be interested in liquor.

If tempted, we recoil from it as from a hot flame.

We react sanely and normally, and

we will find that this has happened automatically.

We will see that our new attitude toward liquor has been given us without any thought or effort on our part. It just comes! That is the miracle of it.

We are not fighting it,

neither are we avoiding temptation.

We feel as though we had been placed in a position of neutrality—safe and protected.

We have not even sworn off. Instead, the problem has been removed. It does not exist for us.

We are neither cocky nor are we afraid.

That is our experience. That is how we react so long as we keep in fit spiritual condition.

*from the book of aa 10th step