I like the word “acceptance.” When I am able to accept the things in my life that I can’t change it takes away the frustration and fear. I know as long as I am doing the right things that I’m supposed to be doing things will work out in the end.
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The promises are my favorite. I would hear them at the start of meetings and think “are these really possible?” Then I’d hear others share about how they came true for them, but I never thought they would for me. When I celebrated my 4 year soberversary, those words came out of my mouth. “The promises do come true!”.
Chapter 6, “Into Action,” on pages 83-84 of the Big Book.
We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness.
We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it.
We will comprehend the word serenity.
We will know peace.
No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others.
The feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear.
We will lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in our fellows.
Self-seeking will slip away.
Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change.
Fear of people and economic insecurity will leave us.
We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us.
We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves.
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I like that you chose “Acceptance”. That’s a difficult one for me and I have to work on it daily.
Page 417, fourth edition (449 in 3rd edition)
“Acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing or situation—some fact of my life—unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment. Nothing, absolutely nothing, happens in God’s world by mistake. Until I could accept my alcoholism, I could not stay sober; unless I accept life completely on life’s terms, I cannot be happy. I need to concentrate not so much on what needs to be changed in the world as on what needs to be changed in me and my attitudes."
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Yes! I love the “promises” too!
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How it works
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Either page 552 (resentments) or the 10th step promises
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“Who are we to say there is no God?” – It instakilled the doubter in me (former agnostic here), making me truly believe that there is something bigger than us running the show.
“as we understand Him” – It reminds me that my God can be anything that I believe in that restores me to sanity.
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Yes! I have seen so many people come into the rooms of AA who don’t believe in God, but than find a God of their own understanding.
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“Contempt prior to investigation “ not having that anymore is saving my life and kicking my supposed coolness😎into the touch it deserves
The promise s bring me inner peace
The doctors opinion also does this 
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