
Last week “C” chaired the same meeting. What struck me as funny was here we had a person sharing about her “turning the corner toward agnosticism” and when it was time for people in the audience to speak we had one of the most expansive, spiritually animated, and heartfelt discussions about God that I have heard in a long time.

“…ever reminding us to place principles before personalities” comes from Tradition 12. This is a good thing to keep in mind when reading the Big Book. Never mind that it uses old-fashioned language of the 1930s. Never mind that it refers to God as a “Him”. Things like this aresimply personality traits of the Big Book and the way they spoke back then. I accept this.

The way the 12 Steps are written, affording each one of us the gift of choice in finding a Higher Power, is what makes this process we call recovery work – if we are open to it. “Turning the corner” is how we “came to believe”. It’s what we all did to find a God of our understanding…or maybe a God not of our understanding... or maybe something out there we don't even want to call God.
All of which leads quite well to this month’s Step and koan.
Step 2: Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
Koan: "Abiding nowhere, the mind appears."
As usual, we will be meeting on the second Friday of this month...

Bill
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