Try my God.......

I once heard an AA old-timer tell a new man, who did not believe in God, "if you don't have one, try mine, it's worked for over 20 years!" Most of us come into recovery with some predetermined ideas (mostly based in anger) of God, and how he will not work for ME. In the chapter We Agnostics (funny on how that is where all the spiritual stuff is) it states: Live a spiritual life or die an alcoholic death. Those are two bad options for a drunk who is looking for a way out of his/her dismal existence. Some of us will go to our doctor and ask, how bad is an alcoholic death? We often shutter at spirituality, seeing it as we need to become a Monk or Nun. If we have a good Sponsor who came around the same way as we are presently, he/she will know what to do to soften the ride into a spiritual existence. My dear friend Father Martin would say, "if you don't believe, MAKE BELIEVE, you have to start somewhere!" Keep it simple! We are complicated people trying to keep it simple. Its way easier than it looks to us in the beginning. that's how I see it, how do you see it? Time for a cup of coffee, see ya later. Bob