Daily Reflections for 2/3/2013
Trudging that road.
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FILLING THE VOID
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, or is willing to believe, we emphatically assure him that he is on his way.
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, or is willing to believe, we emphatically assure him that he is on his way.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 47
I was always fascinated with the study of scientific principles. I was emotionally and physically distant from people while I pursued Absolute Knowledge. God and spirituality were meaningless academic exercises. I was a modern man of science, knowledge was my Higher Power. Given the right set of equations, life was merely another problem to solve. Yet my inner self was dying from my outer man's solution to life's problems and the solution was alcohol. In spite of my intelligence, alcohol became my Higher Power. It was through the unconditional love which emanated from A.A. people and meetings that I was able to discard alcohol as my Higher Power. The great void was filled. I was no longer lonely and apart from life. I had found a true power greater than myself, I had found God's love. There is only one equation which really matters to me now: God is in A.A.
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I was like this quite a bit. I believed the theory above that life was more of an equation to solve. There were reasons for everything, and it could all be manipulated through various variables to achieve different outcomes. This caused a lot of unneeded pain, frustration, and misery. There was no faith in God, because, like above, my higher power was alcohol or drugs, at any given time. Faith is still a pretty foreign concept, but if I keep putting one foot in front of another, while attempting to not live selfishly, I believe I am on the right path.
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My intelligent mind, the thinking mind, blocked me from the Sunlight of the Spirit. But it was by getting unblocked to Him that I was able to come away stronger and use my thinking mind for greater good in doing His work.
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