My name's Jo-Anne and I am an alcoholic. Through AA, I learned humility. It's the feeling of knowing who I am, and knowing who I am not. I am not the centre of the Universe. I'm not God. I'm not even the prettiest, the cleverest, or most witty person in the room. Nor am I the most hard done by. Humility is accepting that I am a human being, I am a child of God, I am not God. Nor am I supposed to be. It was my own cleverness that got me into the hell I knew before I walked into AA. It was the grace of God that helped me find this program.

My serenity comes from humility. When I can be humble, be accepting of the fact that I am not always privy to God's plans for me, and that my job is simply to "show up," then I can achieve serenity. I don't have to control others; I don't have to run the show. I can be calm and let what happens happen. And the peace I find in that is a priceless gift. Thank you for my sobriety, thank you for my serenity.