Only in sobriety have we learned there is but one thing in this universe that we can and must try to influence. Many of us have then discovered a miraculous truth. When we set about to have our Creator manage our lives, we are often empowered with incredible influence over people near us and in the world around us. The power of resentment far exceeds any conception we had of negative thinking. The hours in which we allow futility and unhappiness in our lives are not worth while.
Resentments waste our lives.
Resentments shut us off from the sunlight of the Spirit, thereby preventing the maintenance and growth of a spiritual experience. When shadowed from the sunlight of the Spirit, the insanity of alcohol returns, we drink again, and we die. Harboring of resentments is fatal. It then seems almost a duty to carry a justified resentment. Otherwise those who have wronged us would get off scot-free.