[Praying for those I had a resentment against] worked for me then, and it has worked for me many times since, and it will work for me every time I am willing to work it. Sometimes I have to ask first for the willingness, but it too always comes. And because it works for me, it will work for all of us....
This great experience that released me from the bondage of hatred and replaced it with love is really just another affirmation of the truth I know: I get everything I need in Alcoholics Anonymous--and everything I need I get. And When I get what I need, I invariably find it was what just I wanted all the time.
"The only real freedom a human being can ever know is doing what you ought to do because you want to do it."
Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 552
FREE = Fortunately Recovery Effects Everything