"We will know peace" Promise Four from the big book.
Before we escaped from the bonds of alcohol and other substances how many of us truly knew what peace meant?
When we were out there drinking and doing our thing peace was the last thing we expected to encounter. Most of us awoke in the morning and confronted the problem of dealing with our addiction. And that challenge was way on the other end of the spectrum from peace. Until we could get enough of our favorite substance in our system, life was a series of challenges. Going through hell to get the right chemical balance so we could make it through the rest of our day. In fact our lives were so chaotic, that if something like peace did show up we would wonder what was wrong. Was the world coming to an end?
As you will note, Promise Four says "we will know peace." It did not promise that we will have peace. It simply states that we will "know" peace.
I believe that this promise means something more in the nature that we will know peace from time to time. And after years of recovery peace will become more of a way of life as time progresses.
I know that as time goes on, and as I arrive at my 26th year of sobriety in January, peace is with me more often than not. And I believe that the further we go along in sobriety the more often we will experience peace or live in a state of peace. We finally realize that the best place in life we can be is in a state of acceptance. Which in my opinion, is where we find peace.
We come to realize that there are not too many big deals in life. And that if we calmly accept whatever challenges we face we will enter a state of peace.
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