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What’s playing on your Gratitude Soundtrack?

What’s On Your Gratitude Soundtrack?

What Al-Anon readings, slogans, prayers, practices, or personal experiences help keep gratitude playing in the background of your recovery? What reminds you of the gifts of the Al-Anon program, especially during challenging times? You are also welcome to share on one or more of our Legacies. This month features Step Eleven, Tradition Eleven, and Concept Eleven.  

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How I Finally Began To Understand Serenity

Struggling with the need for clarity when dealing with abstract concepts, I have always wanted to know what something is. After 15 years in Al-Anon, I had no idea what serenity was. How could I tell I had serenity if I had no idea what it felt like? I started thinking hard about the concept. I could identify what serenity wasn’t, and by doing that I could begin to understand what serenity was.

I still struggle with what serenity is, but I can see now what it isn’t.

Serenity isn’t walking around on tiptoe (sometimes literally) to avoid setting off my alcoholic. It isn’t having to watch every word I speak, praying I won’t be misunderstood. So when I can be my mumbling, bumbling self without fearing ridicule or punishment, maybe that’s a taste of serenity?

Serenity isn’t being consumed by thoughts, worries, and fears for my alcoholic loved one. It isn’t lying in bed at night listening for their car to pull up or for the front door to open so I know they are alive. It isn’t having to monitor their spending so the lights don’t get turned off. It isn’t calling their workplace and lying about why they won’t be in—again. So when I can get a good night’s sleep, pay my bills on time, and not have to make up stories about imaginary illnesses, maybe that’s a taste of serenity?

Reprinted with permission of The Forum, Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters, Inc., Virginia Beach, VA.

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