The topic at the AA meeting was âour relationship with God.â An AA brother shared, âI use many verb-preposition compounds and phrases when considering my relationship with God. These include faith in God, belief in God, knowledge of God, trust in God and reliance upon God. âAll of these are good. Faith in God is […]
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Donkeys to the Top
I was sober, with many thoughts and theories about God.Â
God was this or was not that. God cared for us, but He was in a different dimension. God sometimes seemed good but not so good at other times. If God was all power and love, why did He allow so many suffering people? On and on it went.
Good Can Come from Bad
Even wrong motives and intentions can lead to good outcomes if I practice the principles of our Program in my life. I learned this lesson from a share at an AA meeting.
Never asked why
The mind is like a parachute, âit works best when opened.â
Recently I learned this lesson – again.
Newcomers I have worked with often want to know why they were alcoholics.
I would say that knowing the âwhyâ of alcoholism was a waste of time. The answer was not important to the solution.
Experiencing Our Higher Power
A share at the Akron Group in Victoria, âyou donât know God, you experience God.â
This was one for the notebookâwhat a great insight. We cannot know God. But we can experience Him.
Our Understooding of God
In the Steps, when we refer to how we think about God, the past tense is used. We talk about âGod as we understood Him,â not âGod as we understand Him.â
What genius Bill W. and the old timers possessed in writing the Big Book. That difference in tense, from present to past, is enormous. They could have said âunderstandâ as easily as they said âunderstoodâ; but with that little change, they shifted the entire meaning.