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margo · 04-13-2007, 12:08 PM

April 13

"In a few seconds he was overwhelmed by a conviction of the Presence
of God. It poured over and through him with the certainty and
majesty of a great tide at flood. The barriers he had built through
the years were swept away. He stood in the Presence of Infinite
Power and Love. He had stepped from bridge to shore. For the first
time, he lived in conscious companionship with his Creator."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, We Agnostics, pg. 56~

lanie67 · 04-13-2007, 08:40 PM

I remember when I first got sober, waiting for something like this to happen to me. What I realize now is that it wasn't necessary, because in truth I already believed...I just wasn't allowing myself to accept it. By nature I'm a very spiritual person who is interested in mystical things, and I was just suppressing that in my attempts to be an atheist. There is nothing at all wrong with atheism, and I have met many atheists in sobriety, but that was not the truth of what I believed, inside. Now I let myself believe, and I have a lot more peace inside.

04-13-2007, 12:08 PM	#1 (permalink)
margo Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: North Vancouver, British Columbia Posts: 1,727	Big Book Quote...Want to Share? April 13 "In a few seconds he was overwhelmed by a conviction of the Presence of God. It poured over and through him with the certainty and majesty of a great tide at flood. The barriers he had built through the years were swept away. He stood in the Presence of Infinite Power and Love. He had stepped from bridge to shore. For the first time, he lived in conscious companionship with his Creator." ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, We Agnostics, pg. 56~ __________________ Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while a great wind is bearing me across the sky. ~Ojibwe saying~

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04-13-2007, 08:40 PM	#2 (permalink)
lanie67 Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: south east Posts: 216	I remember when I first got sober, waiting for something like this to happen to me. What I realize now is that it wasn't necessary, because in truth I already believed...I just wasn't allowing myself to accept it. By nature I'm a very spiritual person who is interested in mystical things, and I was just suppressing that in my attempts to be an atheist. There is nothing at all wrong with atheism, and I have met many atheists in sobriety, but that was not the truth of what I believed, inside. Now I let myself believe, and I have a lot more peace inside.

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