Originally Posted by
NoelleR 
"...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?..."
Well, pmv, there are many AAer's who disagree with some/many parts of the BB. Most of my recovered friends are Atheists; so their answer to the above questions would be "nothing" and "isn't" yet they're all clean/sober 30 years, at least............something must be working.
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NoelleR
That's me. Coming up on 32 years in a couple of week. For me and only me, that binary black/white thinking - everything or nothing, is or isn't - is alcoholic thinking. Working the program has given the ability to think gray. I don't know what any god or gods are or they even exist. The truth is I don't care. I know it ain't me.
I'm just home from a speaking commitment and shared part of what I do know about my HP. The morning of November 14th, getting and staying sober wasn't even a thought. The idea of not drinking terrified me and I would have rather cut off one of my legs than stop drinking. But here's the thing - a door opened and I walked trough it and I haven't had a drink since. Whatever it is that opened that door is my HP. Call it God, Grace, the power of the universe or Billy, that's fine by me.
When I stop playing god and can be comfortable with "I don't know" is when I'm living in solution. It's that simple.
-allan