If you have a resentment
you want to be free of,
if you will pray for the
person or the thing that you resent,
you will be free. If you
will ask in prayer for everything
you want for yourself
to be given to them, you will be free.
Ask for their health,
their prosperity, their happiness, and you will be free.
Even when you don't really
want it for them,
and your prayers are only
words and you do't mean it,
go ahead and do it anyway.
Do it every day for two weeks
and you will find you
have come to mean itand to want it for them,
and you will realize that
where you used to feel bitterness and resentment
and hatred, you now feel
compassionate understanding and love.
from p. 552 of Alcoholics Anonymous, the Big Book of AA