AA members have always had a difficult time explaining the "God business." We didn't want to be considered religious, but at the same time we've always believed some contact with a Higher Power is necessary for real personal growth.
There's nothing wrong for our purposes in simply visualizing God as a Higher Power that has always been within us and around us. "Before they call, I will answer," goes an old saying, and that was true even in our darkest days. Many of us can look back to realize that a certain force was moving us toward recovery long before we knew we needed any recovery. Many of us also believe that a Higher Power helped bring AA into being and move it along to become a worldwide force for good.
But God works in ways that can seem to come from chance or coincidence. Quite often, we'll find that little events had far-reaching results in our lives. When we review how such things happened, we should not conclude that this happens only to certain "special" people. All human beings are part of God's creation and can avail themselves of guidance and direction. The more serious problem is that guidance and direction are sometimes ignored or rejected.
I'll go about my affairs today with the knowledge that my Higher Power is making the important decisions in my life. I'll come out about where God wants me to be.
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Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ~Dr. Seuss
This was what I needed to read before facing Monday morning! I was almost ready to stay home from work, thinking of all the problems I had left to resolve from last week. I am more prepared to face them now.
I also needed to see that right now. I had a meeting today with someone and the meeting turned out to be much different than I had anticipated. Apparently, I offended someone a long time ago who is in an influential position, and that person has been telling people ever since then, and it is causing negative reactions from people by a ripple effect, or something. Well, so,, I asked for a meeting with this person, and was put off a bit,,, I told her it is that I want to know in what way I offended her and why that is still affecting my relationships now.
But I do believe that God works in mysterious ways, and that I am right now where I am supposed to be. Where that is, I 'm not quite sure. Where am I? Umm.. a long way down my recovery journey,,, and now ready to go 'back' and do an amends? ready to resolve this obstacle?
I'm relating to this part of the post, "Quite often, we'll find that little events had far-reaching results in our lives. When we review how such things happened, we should not conclude that this happens only to certain "special" people. All human beings are part of God's creation and can avail themselves of guidance and direction."
It is helping me to have hope that God was and is working in this in ways I might not now know.
amanda
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do your best and God does the rest, a step at a time
