Pray

[caressa]

I argued with my sponsor about God. He wrote on a piece of paper: 'God as I understand God is...' and said, 'Go home and finish this sentence. So, I thought about this for a long time, then wrote pages and pages about what I thought was the quintessential distillation of every theory, every religious notion about God. And here I had created the perfect one. I took it back to him, he didn't even look at it, he just crumpled it up and said: 'Good, now go home and pray to it.' - John L.

- Alkiespeaks

This affirms something that I am a firm believer of, it doesn't matter what your concept is of God is, as long as you get a picture in your own mind, and you in turn pray to it.

It is "God" as I understand Him. Many change it to read "God as I understand God." When you get to Step Three, it changes to "God as we understood Him."

I find an understanding, and that understanding changes over time and as I have said many times, "God is as He reveals Himself to me in today.

I have to be aware. I have to connect. I have to learn to trust. I have to learn to wait on His time, not mine. It is always good to pray and close with "Thy will, not mine be done."

A quiet is never remiss. A continuing literary praying for the same thing over and over again, shows lack of trust. I think I used the right word. As I heard a priest (he became one in recovery and has over 50 years sober) say, "It is a wonder God doesn't lean over the side of heaven and say, "Will you all just shut up!"

He also made me aware that our inventory and recovery is in today, not about what was, but what is in today. Pray and God will see you through it.

[majestyjo]

When in doubt, pray. When I look at my life, I think, how can I doubt. I am still here. A birthday makes me grateful that I get another chance to do practice and make it right, one day at a time.



I always said, "Being born on April 1st was the only excuse I had for the way I was until I found out that I was an alcoholic." Then I found out I didn't need an excuse, it was okay to be me, whether I was an alcoholic or not. In today, I am a slow recovering alcoholic who hasn't picked up a drink, one day at a time since August 21, 1991.

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[majestyjo]

Need to remember prayer and gratitude today. Gratitude is an action word, and that is one of the many reasons that I come here.

[majestyjo]

Got to love this. Step Three was not an action Step. All you had to do was make a decision. For me it was a daily decision and that took action on my part, remember to do it.

Step 3 is the Stepping Stone of the program. You need Step 3 in order to move on to the program of recovery which are Steps 4-9. They say in Step 4, if you have fear of doing your inventory, go back to Step 3.