Daily
Reflections reading June 24th
A Spiritual Kindergarten
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We
are only operating a spiritual kindergarten in which people are enabled to get
over drinking and find the grace to go on living to better effect. AS BILL SEES
IT, p. 95
When
I came to A.A., I was run down by the bottle and wanted to lose the obsession
to drink, but I didn’t really know how to do that. I decided to stick around
long enough to find out from the ones who went before me. All of a sudden I was
thinking about God! I was told to get a Higher Power and I had no idea what one
looked like. I found out there are many Higher Powers. I was told to find God,
as I understand Him, that there was no doctrine of the Godhead in A.A. I found
what worked for me and then asked that Power to restore me to sanity. The
obsession to drink was removed and one day at a time my life went on, and I
learned how to live sober.
©
Alcoholics Anonymous World Services
My
thoughts on June 24th Reading
Atheist or agnostic it didn't matter to me when I was angry
I just didn't like any God that aside well I just did not want God in my life
because I was afraid of Him the only God I knew of was a vengeful condemning
God I did not want near me
I was doing fine without Him in my life so I thought but
when I looked at my past I knew I needed a higher power but God no never happen
still stubborn not willing to open my mind to your God but I did listen to
people
Over and over again, say what this loving God has done for
them I still resisted asking your God to help me the group was still my higher
power the good old sponsor always had the answer
He said the group is your sponsor right, where did the group
get its strength from its God that give them the strength and He will do it for
you if only you would swallow you false pride and humbly ask Him for help
He can't keep working thru the group, what happens in the
middle of the night when you need help, the group is not there but God is and
all you need to do is ask him
God is always with you in your heart even when you said get
lost to Him
He stayed with you, today I accept God into my life the God
I found here in the halls
I do ask for His love and help, God has given me the chance to
become a better person
And has given me a way to apply His knowledge of what life
is all about with the 12 steps of recovery and by doing the footwork that He
has laid out I try to keep it simple and trust in Him today, I know God is in
the heart of everyone
All we had to do is listen with our hearts and try to do His
will for us today, remember the Twelve Steps are a group of principles, spiritual
in their nature which if practiced as a way of life
Can expel the obsession of drinking and enable the
sufferer to become happily and usefully whole, yes we had to go to a spiritual
kindergarten in the beginning it was all I could handle at that time but
spiritually grows in us thru the 12 steps
God bless you Al M
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