aasharon90

Hi Im Sharon and Im an Alcoholic.

By the Grace of my HP and people
like you here in SR I havent had a
drink of alcohol since 8-11-90.

For that and you I am truely grateful.



“'I’ve tried everything else,' I thought, 'and I’ve got
no place else to go. I might just as well.' I sat down
at my desk, got a pad of paper and a pencil, and
asked myself, 'If you could pick the kind of God that
you could believe in, what would He be like?' I bore in
mind the facts that I was an alcoholic and that I had been
a perfectionist all my life. The world was never perfect
enough for me. Everything that I ever believed in, every
ideal that I ever followed turned out to have feet of clay.
Here was my chance. For the first time in my life, I could
create something perfect. All right!

"I wrote across the page, 'God is the perfection I’ve been
searching for all my life. He is too perfect to have human
characteristics and faults.' That was the start.

"Then I wrote, 'God is the ultimate perfection. He is the
perfect love, the perfect truth, the perfect goodness, the
perfect understanding, tolerance, mercy, forgiveness.
God is so perfect that no matter how evil, how unclean
we may be, He’ll forgive us if we ask, and grant us
strength to overcome our shortcomings.'"


Thanks for letting me share.

GlassPrisoner

I can't begin to even try and comprehend God. I'd blow a fuse.

All I know is He cares about me and those around me. And He helps if you ask Him.

Alive

Lord you are everything to me. I love you so much that i cry when i am happy and i cry less when i am sad.You mean father...to me, you're my real father, because my relation with my dad is tough, i feel like your son and like Jesus' brother.i love to laugh with you God, i love to tell you everything and i love the fact that you surprise me so many times.I wish one day you may be proud of me.I love you so, so much...i never forgot you...even if you stopped believing in me, i would still love you, even if it was proven you didn't exist i could still prove you do.

aasharon90

Unconditional Love.

BaldHeadedJohn

I practice Wicca.

To me, my Higher Power is both male and female, within and without. An all-encompassing energy of divine making. A God and Goddess that love me and demand nothing other than basic decent respect of everything and everyone. A God and Goddess that guide, but do not govern.

nogard

feeling comfy in my own skin
not feeling lonely or alone
having a much wider perspective on life
waking up with a smile on my kisser plus energy and life in me thats God in my life

what can I do today? Take my will and my life. Guide me in my recovery. Show me how to live.

Kevin

NEEDTOBESOBER

God is mine and I pray everyday to help me with my problems, not just the addiction I have but about other personal problems, my father had to have a biopsy on his prostate cause the doc had seen something but thank god, the results came back and he does not have cancer-so if you pray good things can happen!

dontcareinmi

Jesus Christ is my higher power

IO Storm

Unconditional, utter Love..

Unmerited favor...

Utmost Grace...

Life changing power...

Father

Lord

Savior

Tree of Life

Triune God

IO Storm

Living Water...

IO Storm

Guide, and Director of my path through Life..

Jesus

Dee74

My HP is my guide...and I've learned I don't always get what I want, but I always get what I need

D

BaldHeadedJohn

IO Storm-
Those are beautiful pictures. Thanks.
BHJ

Rumi

I am still searching for him.

2ala2

Higher power to me is when I ask someone's advice when I want to do something or when I change the way I do things, when I don't do it my way. Higher power is change for me. Changinging the way I think, the way I make decisions with God's guidance of course...

ontrackagain

I am almost 7 days sober here. I have stayed away from AA because of the God thing. I am a recovering catholic. But I have been studying the AA 12 steps to see if I could follow this program. (The only thing that I haven't tried.) I have gone to each of the step forums and found them very useful.

for instance, take step one. If you are here you MUST admit that you are powerless over alcohol. If you are here, I will assume,that your life has become unmanageable. Both things I KNOW to be true in my life.

In step 2, the hard one for me. The HP thing. I discovered, in the step 2 thread, that many have used the AA group itself as their higher power. To take it a step further, some have looked to the successful members of their group (5-20yrs. sober) as specific examples of their higher power.

This works for me. I'll worry about the other steps later. First things first.

Rumi

Is the higher power/God a creation of us to comfort ourselves and ease the pain or does one really exist independent of our minds?

I have no doubt that those who truly believe have an easier time dealing with life than those of us who either don't believe or unsure about the truth.

I guess this is the biggest questions philosophers and scientists have struggled with for many centuries and there is no definite scientific answer to it, the knowledge does not exist at leat not yet.

aasharon90

When i talk to others or share with others, i try not
to use the word God in there....Not that i dont believe,
because i do....but then that is my own personal opinion
and thoughts....

For me i dont like to push my own beliefs on others....

What i have learned in recovery and thru this program
is following the principles of the 12 steps provided
to us....

To believe in something or Someone greater than I
to help me stay sober because my way of thinking
and doing things didnt work....i just realized I was
powerless over everything....

So i began to depend on AA as a whole to guide me
for a long time....If members before me could stay sober
one day at a time for awhile...then all i needed to do
was follow their own examples....

So far its worked....

IO Storm

Thinking back,back...

I had lost my faith when I entered the rooms of AA..

I thought the god of my childhood had abandoned me...or just forgot.

I didn't want to go to AA because I thought I would be "forced" to believe

in a God who did not care anymore...

The concept of a Higher Power of my own understanding gently led me to

open up and at least look at "God" again...

I tried seeing a loving Father who did not judge nor condemn...

I figured if my own Daddy loved me so much..then the God I thought i knew must

be different..maybe He really cared?

And so slowly the mean God became the God of my childhood in a whole new

perception...

I wasn't afraid and didn't have to hide or run anymore..

I could tell Him ALL of my thoughts and fears and problems..

After all....he knew already!

I CAME TO BELIEVE..in Mercy,and Grace...

It didn't happen overnight.

(just to clarify..)

Love,

:

IO

Surlyredhead

Like the feel of the sun on my skin, he warms my soul...
Like the smell of rain, he refreshes me.....
Like watching my Son sleep, he fills my heart...

If he chose to show himself, I believe he would appear however the individual thinks he looks, Man, Woman, Black, White or even Purple!

I choose to call him God, you may call him another name, I don't think he minds, as long as we call him with love and sincerity.

I don't think he cares what we look like, who we choose to love, what language we speak or how educated we are....I think it is what is in our heart that matters.

If left to my own devices, I would be dead right now, what you are reading is being written by a miracle of God, I will not turn my back on his love again.

Cathy