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Day 2 Quote: Talking with God
"No one who has had a unique experience with prayer has a right to withhold it from others. Soong Mel-Ling
Step Three had us making a decision to turn our lives and will over to the care of God as we understood Him. At this stage of recovery, Step Eleven has us actively engaged in dialogue with the God-concept we have adopted for ourselves---whatever that may be. In any case, most of us would be hard-pressed to give an adequate description of the form that entity takes on for us. Our belief may well be a highly personal and private one that we are reluctant to define.
Some of us have had no difficulty in integrating our religious beliefs into this spiritual program. We're quite comfortable with the God of our childhood. Still others have borrowed another phrase from the Twelve Traditions of AA, and think of their Higher Power as "a loving God as he may express Himself in our group conscience."
Whatever choice we have made, Step Eleven offers us the opportunity to practice talking to that power, whether by inner dialogue or by getting down on our knees to pray. Many of the agnostics on this path have admitted that although they have no real belief in God, they follow the ritual of praying because they've heard so many successful stories from others who have done so with remarkable results.
Today's Step: I engage in daily dialogue with God as I understand Him. | Step by Step. Muriel Zink
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NOTE: All Big Book quotes are from the First Edition of the Big Book
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
- Maya Angelou
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