Yesterday, I desperately needed some serenity, so I decided to go online to read page 449. Couldn't find that page in the new addition. I even called Central Office to find the new number. They said it was page 417.......... I went to my meeting instead.

Today, I found what I was looking for:

And 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 in my attitudes.