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- From: hartman@informix.com (Robert Hartman)
- Newsgroups: alt.recovery
- Subject: Re: Seeking help on "The God Thing"
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.201652.21545@informix.com>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 20:16:52 GMT
- References: <75655@apple.apple.COM>
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- In article <75655@apple.apple.COM> bc@Apple.COM (bill coderre) writes:
- >
- >We've had a lot of bickering lately about praying, God, recovery, and
- >AA official opinion.
- >
- >Not that I'd like to put a stop to that, but I am interested in
- >getting some help "finding" my higher power. Anybody got a good
- >reference?
- >
- >I have tried to re-work the concepts and ideas into a Zen
- >Buddhist-like framework, but it's hard to do while I'm busy
- >recovering.
-
- What worked for me was to refrain from indulging in any of my concepts
- about a Higher Power, and to let that power reveal itself in whatever
- way it chose. This went hand in hand with letting go of control of my
- recovery process. I had to acknowledge that my recovery was a process
- that would lead me to become someone I didn't already know. Scary, but
- I must say I like who I am now a lot better than who I was.
-
- I couldn't "understand" my HP. In fact, I think that trying to do so
- for me was a way to try to "control" my HP. So for me, it's better not
- to understand my HP, but to focus on my relationship with Her.
-
- To me, it was the "little miracles," and the big insights that were the
- clearest evidence that I was being well cared for. Those things
- brought me into a belief that my needs in life would be met after all.
-
- I haven't thought about this in a long time. It's good to remember
- what a joy it was when I started to see how things actually did tend
- to work out for me.
-
- Take good care,
-
- -r
-