That’s what the man on the SA tape told me to do for my boss. My boss told me I was a “permanent temporary” and that I wouldn’t be hired as a permanent employee. When he told me that, I had been on the job about a year and a half. As I went through the Steps again, I prayed for the people on my resentment list. The man on the tape told me to pray for them until I meant it, and I did. A few weeks later, after I was done praying for my boss, he and I went to the mountains together to work on some cabins. We talked fishing and cars and stuff. It was the first time we had ever talked beyond a few words. My resentment was gone. A few weeks later a co-worker put in his two weeks’ notice. My old attitude came back. “He’d better hire me this time, or else.” I went to my boss’s boss and asked him to put in a word for me. I can’t stay a temporary forever, I thought. I was angry.

Then I realized I was back to my stinkin’ thinkin’. I was trying to run the show, get things to go my way, trying to control.

I let it go. I told God if he wanted me to be a temporary forever, then so be it. I turned it over. My serenity returned and I was at peace.

About a week later, my boss came to me and told me to put an application in. I was hired as a full-timer shortly thereafter.

My sponsor tells me I’m the only problem I’ve got and that God will bless me as fast as I am willing to do the work. It works if I work it.