Monday, August 30, 2021

Finding A Higher Power

I've never been comfortable with the traditional Christian language sometimes used in the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous (I've been sober for a while now). A major tenet of Alcoholics Anonymous is to turn to a higher power for help. I figure something is out there, I just don't know what that is. But I don't feel comfortable with the idea of a God on high who makes things happen (a lot of very bad things happen and a god who doles out bad things scares the bejeebies out of me). What works for me is to see AA as a whole as my higher power, the fact that millions of recovering drunks are out there running meetings, volunteering to answer calls, making bad meeting coffee. That God with skin on has kept me sober for years.