GOD EITHER IS OR HE ISN'T

[Caressa2]

“When we became alcoholics, crushed by a self-imposed crisis we could not postpone or evade, we had to fearlessly face the proposition that either God is everything or else He is nothing. God either is or He isn’t.”

Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, We Agnostics, pg. 53

This reminds me of the phrase, “Are you an alcoholic?” “I think I might be just a little bit.” The both statements are the same as saying I think I am a little bit pregnant. Either you are or you are not. I had to find my own truth, and although I was in denial, there was something within me that kept me coming to the rooms of recovery for two years until I had reach total acceptance, and I know it wasn’t me.

When I looked back over my life, some force was working in my life keeping me alive and to the doors of recovery, because I qualified twenty years before I got here. Some are sicker than others. When I took an honest look at my life I realized God didn’t go away, I did!

God works in my life today. He utilizes people, places and things to show me a better way of living and to help me in my journey.

[mender1]

He is for sure,
others call the spirit by many different names some who I have met call it mother nature,
I call him father.
People really get caught up in the doctrine of religon and lose sight of teue spiriuality.
Sprituality and religon are two different things that intertwine.
Religon is the study of doctrines which were written by humans.
Sprituality is a gift.
You find it when you accept that you are not the center of the universe and become part of

[TxRainwater]

Good morning Caressa and Owen,
Well, I know there is something/someone/whatever
that is much higher than myself that put all of 'this'
together and set into motion this whole 'being'. I have
to believe that I am here for a reason and that all things
are unfolding as they should.
Today, I choose to call that power God or Spirit....makes no difference the name I all anyway...all the same just different perspectives and concepts.
Thanks for your post Caressa.
Hope you both have a wonderful sober and fun-filled Sunday!

Love and Light,
Brenda

[caressa]

Was looking through some old posts. Hard to believe that this was written five years ago.

God still is in my life. With the pain and health issues in my life today, I would have been long gone if it wasn't for God in my life. I see so many people with the same issues who are on heavy medication and totally isolated and into self and I want to tell them, get a 12 Step Program. You know me you qualify, even if you feel you don't qualify as an alcoholic or an addict.

[majestyjo]

I identified so much with ACoA (Adult Children of Alcoholics), and I was so grateful that I went to AA first, or I might have died in my disease because of my denial.

[caressa222]

Coming up on Christmas and the end of 2019. Y God has been very good to me.