By making a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God, we are declaring an end to our spiritual rebellion. We give up all resistance and cease all hostilities. We stop fighting God and make peace with him. We accept his terms, which are not unreasonable: we start to rest in him, to trust him and to look to him for our peace and our security, confident that we are loved and will be cared for, whatever the circumstances. We admit that he’s God and we are not. We surrender our will to his and accept his guidance and direction for our lives.
For more P TP123 passages on serenity and peace, see “The Serenity Prayer,” pp. 192–202, and “Serenity and Peace,” pp. 214–215. For more PTP4, see for serenity pp. 171, 264, 298, 316; and Stoicism, 285; and prayer, 247, 248, 379; for peace pp. 287, 331, 381, 437; of mind, 169, 248; maker, 316; restore, 326. For more Big Book and 12&12 passages, click on 164andmore.com and search under serenity and peace and their cognates. On this site, see The Virtue of Acceptance, in Practice These, and The Slogans of Step 3, in Reflections.
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