Daily
Reflections reading June 15th
Making A.A. Your Higher Power
You
can . . . make A.A. itself your ‘higher power.’ Here’s a very large group of
people who have solved their alcohol problem. . . . many members . . . have crossed
the threshold just this way. . . . their faith broadened and deepened. . . .
transformed, they came to believe in a Higher Power. . . ” TWELVE STEPS AND
TWELVE TRADITIONS, pp. 27-28
No
one was greater than I, at least in my eyes, when I was drinking. Nevertheless,
I couldn’t smile at myself in the mirror, so I came to A.A. where, with others,
I heard talk of a Higher Power. I couldn’t accept the concept of a Higher Power
because I believed God was cruel and unloving. In desperation I chose a table,
a tree, then my A.A. group, as my Higher Power. Time passed, my life improved,
and I began to wonder about this Higher Power. Gradually, with patience,
humility and a lot of questions, I came to believe in God. Now my relationship
with my Higher Power gives me the strength to live a happy, sober life.
©
Alcoholics Anonymous World Services
My
thoughts on June 15th Reading
My higher power when I first arrive in the halls of AA was
ME! Did not take long to realize the people who were at these meetings had been
were I was, a lot of what I was hearing was good stuff about how to stay sober
how to change ME! This AA group became my higher power
Even if I did not believe all the God stuff, they told me my
HP loved me even when I was at my sickest point in my disease, they said you
can pick yourself up surrender and make the choice to go to a meeting, get
phone numbers, find a sponsor to help you learn how to find your higher power
Today I have the power to choose my attitudes and actions
this is a freedom, it linked me to my higher power, today mine is God as I
understand Him, I had to stop wondering what I could do to bring my Higher
Power into my life
He takes care of my connection to him only when the time is
right and I am ready, as an alkie I want to control everything in my life,
luckily it doesn't work that way I had to work on willingness and open-mindedness
about my new higher power, in my past willingness was based on a "What's
in it for me” what will I get from this
There had to be an angle here some place, I did not know
willingness comes from humility and a sincere desire to change ME and my
attitudes, towards people, places, and things, today I have faith in my
recovery, in a Power greater and wiser than myself God as I understand Him
Today I am willing to Let Go and Let my wonderful God do for
me, what I could not do for myself when prayer is from the heart I know it is a
true prayer and am at peace with God, through my conscious contact with my God
I learned how to let Him be the source of my love
I understanding today what God most wants for me is
happiness, contentment, and peace, God is big enough to encompass what any of
us may conceive God to be, and I did start our making AA my higher power until
I began to believe in A.A.’s God as they understood Him
God bless you Al M
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