by rodeoraven7 » Sun Mar 13, 2011 10:15 pm
Glenn, It has been my experience that a higher power or a power greater than myself is what is really important. What am I to think of this thing? I need to believe in it enough to be able to turn to it when I''m thinkinking about drinking with some kind of confidence that it can provide some relief from the dis-ease I am feeling. Do I need to sit in a church, jail cell or on top of a mountain to find a higher power? I didn't end up needing to find the highr power, it was with me all along. I just needed to start letting it into my daily life. I pray to help build my relationship with the higher power stronger. What started out as going through a rediculous set of motions that I had no faith in at all has become such a part of my daily walk that I now can't see why I was trying to live with out it. Put your hands together in the old here's the church, heres the steeple fashion, now go ahead and open it up to see all the people. Wiggle your fingers! Doesn't that stir just a little joy in you? Doesn't that make you a little more happy than sad? Couldn't that be a higher power working in your life for that moment of joy? I thought so and realized I had placed the key of willingness into the lock of a door I didn't know existed, let alone that I had it closed and locked. Today I belong to a religion that is ministerd by the congriguation. That to me is A.A.. I love all my brothers and sisters and pray to the higher power to help me remember that. Practice, practice, practice. Today I love to make meetings. It seems to be where the higher power speaks to me most and where I have my best ideas
Glenn, It has been my experience that a higher power or a power greater than myself is what is really important. What am I to think of this thing? I need to believe in it enough to be able to turn to it when I''m thinkinking about drinking with some kind of confidence that it can provide some relief from the dis-ease I am feeling. Do I need to sit in a church, jail cell or on top of a mountain to find a higher power? I didn't end up needing to find the highr power, it was with me all along. I just needed to start letting it into my daily life. I pray to help build my relationship with the higher power stronger. What started out as going through a rediculous set of motions that I had no faith in at all has become such a part of my daily walk that I now can't see why I was trying to live with out it. Put your hands together in the old here's the church, heres the steeple fashion, now go ahead and open it up to see all the people. Wiggle your fingers! Doesn't that stir just a little joy in you? Doesn't that make you a little more happy than sad? Couldn't that be a higher power working in your life for that moment of joy? I thought so and realized I had placed the key of willingness into the lock of a door I didn't know existed, let alone that I had it closed and locked. Today I belong to a religion that is ministerd by the congriguation. That to me is A.A.. I love all my brothers and sisters and pray to the higher power to help me remember that. Practice, practice, practice. Today I love to make meetings. It seems to be where the higher power speaks to me most and where I have my best ideas