Acceptance

AA Thought for Today

To this day, I am amazed at how many of my problems--most of which had nothing to do with drinking, I believed--have become manageable or have simply disappeared since I quit drinking. . .

It helped me a great deal to become convinced that alcoholism was a disease, not a moral issue: that I had been drinking as a result of a compulsion, even though I had not been aware of the compulsion at the time; and that sobriety was not a matter of willpower. . .

At last, acceptance proved to be the key to my drinking problem.

-- Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th ed., Acceptance Was the Answer, page 416