When we find ourselves powerless over something/someone that is causing us distress, one action we can take is to ask God for His Serenity. In serenity we find safety. We find that we are restored to sanity as Step Two promises. When we receive sanity, our obsessive thinking, our overwhelming negative emotions, and our compulsive behaviors recede. There we also can ask and receive His courage to do whatever is our part to do. And we also receive clarity as what is ours and what is His to do.  

Letting go always seemed like taking the whatever and dropping it off the edge of the Grand Canyon. Way too hard. Instead, we learn to take the whatever to God and give it to Him to manage. Al-Anon calls it detachment.  And asking for more help to not try to take it back. Letting go and letting Him take control. 

Choices….