Step by Step
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
"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. What was our choice to be?" - Alcoholics Anonymous, 3rd Edition, 1976, Ch 4 ("We Agnostics"), p 53.
Today, if asked by an agnostic or atheist how I know a Higher Power exists, what will be my answer? Answering from the perspective that the Big Book requires surrender to a Power greater than ourselves, I need only look into my yesterdays to understand that the power of alcohol was greater than me and, if something can be so strong as to knock me into the deepest and darkest of gutters, can there not be a polar strength that can lift me to heights I have never reached? But if this comparison of polar entities does not strike a cord, I need only to remember that I already know the power of alcohol - and it took from me literally everything. Maybe on blind faith I can at least hope - if not believe - that something adverse is more powerful, strong enough to at least give me courage to start anew. Besides, what is there to lose? Today, I seek the courage to make a leap of faith to find a power stronger than alcohol. And our common journey continues. Step by step. - Chris M., 2013
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
"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. What was our choice to be?" - Alcoholics Anonymous, 3rd Edition, 1976, Ch 4 ("We Agnostics"), p 53.
Today, if asked by an agnostic or atheist how I know a Higher Power exists, what will be my answer? Answering from the perspective that the Big Book requires surrender to a Power greater than ourselves, I need only look into my yesterdays to understand that the power of alcohol was greater than me and, if something can be so strong as to knock me into the deepest and darkest of gutters, can there not be a polar strength that can lift me to heights I have never reached? But if this comparison of polar entities does not strike a cord, I need only to remember that I already know the power of alcohol - and it took from me literally everything. Maybe on blind faith I can at least hope - if not believe - that something adverse is more powerful, strong enough to at least give me courage to start anew. Besides, what is there to lose? Today, I seek the courage to make a leap of faith to find a power stronger than alcohol. And our common journey continues. Step by step. - Chris M., 2013
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