Many of us have long harbored feelings that business was not part of our lives, but for others more qualified. Yet participation in running our own program teaches us how our organization operates, and also helps us to become responsible for our own re-covery. We study the literature of Alcoholics Anonymous to strengthen our understanding of compulsive disease. We can identify with many of the situations described therein by substituting the words compulsive debt for alcohol. Awareness We maintain awareness of the danger of compulsive debt by taking note of bank, loan company and credit card advertising, and by reading news accounts of its effects.
Service is vital to our recovery.
Only through service can we give to others what has been so generously given to us. Return to Top of Page The Serenity Prayer Higher power, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Money gradually became our servant, not our master. We found that freedom from fear was more important than freedom from want.