Willing to Believe -As Bill Sees It

[CarolD]

*~*~*~*~*^As Bill Sees It^*~*~*~*~*

Willing to Believe

Do not let any prejudice you may have against spiritual terms deter you from honestly asking yourself what they might mean to you. At the start, this was all we needed to commence spiritual growth, to effect our first conscious relation with God as we understood Him. Afterward, we found ourselves accepting many things which had seemed entirely out of reach. That was growth. But if we wished to grow we had to begin somewhere. So at first we used our own conceptions of God, however limited they were. We needed to ask ourselves but one short question: "Do I now believe, or am I even willing to believe, that there is a Power greater than myself?'' As soon as a man can say that he does believe, even in this small degree, or is willing to believe, we emphatically assure him that he is on his way.


ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 47
1st Edition

[Freedom1990]

Thanks for posting this, Carol. Willingness definitely unlocked the door for me!

[Music]

A willingness to believe opened up a lot of doors for me. It's funny that most folks take at face value the fact that history is the truth because they're told so by school teachers, news anchors etc. All they have to go on are books, pictures, and in some cases people who were there to witness, never considering the possibility that things are sometimes lied about, exaggerated, seen through different points of view and interpreted differently. When it comes to my own personal history, I fought against the belief that I was an alcoholic when the proof was staring me in the face. And to think that a belief in a higher power could relieve me of the obsession and compulsion to drink was out of the question. It wasn't until I had no other way to turn that I became willing to believe. Deparation was the key!