AA Thought for the Day
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August 5, 2015
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An Inside Job
We found the Great Reality deep down within us.
In the last analysis it is only there that He may be found.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 55
Thought to Ponder . . .
I saw, I felt, I believed.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
F A I T H = Finding Answers In The Heart.
A Member Shares:
I'm Dave, an alcoholic. I had read everything I could find on the subject and did a deep dive into various religions. I keep a journal folder and in that folder is a .doc named “God” that I have written in time to time for a year and a half. The word count is up to 45,000 and something. The point being I have really looked for answers to my questions ... answers which I could not seem to find a satisfactory answer to. I went so far as to say to hell with it, I will never figure this out and pretty much claimed Atheism as my “religion.” Well, that didn’t work too well, either. It was not as if I went around hating God and in fact, wished I could be like many in AA for whom the answer seems so plain. I wished I could go back to the faith I had been raised with. But for me, I had crossed over a bridge away from it years and years ago for many reasons. I knew I would never be able to go back, no matter how well-meaning it was and how it had seemed to make such a difference in so many lives. It was not something I was angry about either. It was not bitter and angry rejection, although at one time it was. I didn’t reject God really. I just could not make those dots connect anymore. What finally clicked comes right straight out of the Big Book on page 55: “We found the Great Reality deep down within us. In the last analysis it is only there that He may be found. It was so with us.” And later in pages 567-568, “With few exceptions our members find that they have tapped an unsuspected inner resource which they presently identify with their own conception of a Power greater than themselves.” That was it. Therein lie my answer. I could keep it as simple as that and bring an end to the never-ending debate in my head. This all turned around and it became an inside job rather than an outside job. It made sense to me. Maybe something like what the Hindu calls “the Beyond that is within." Thanks.
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