An EDA Member Works the Steps (Big Book 506)

I no longer struggle with the old behaviors as long as I continue to make a daily commitment to, and practice of, working to serve the greater good. This work brings me both peace and perspective. I still believe in the power of a life-engendering creative force that pervades the universe, that enables me to wake up and want to live each day, that brought me into early recovery thirty years ago. But the power that gives me perspective to “keep calm and carry on” is the power of surrender to the principles of truth, equality, justice, and love, and to the process of equipping myself to be of useful service to the greater good: a higher purpose.