AA Thought for the Day

August 25, 2005

Sunlight

When the thought was expressed
that there might be a God personal to me,
I didn't like the idea.
I could go for such conceptions as Creative Intelligence,
Universal Mind or Spirit of Nature
but I resisted the thought of a Czar of the Heavens,
however loving His sway might be.

My friend suggested what then seemed a novel idea.
He said, "Why don't you choose your own conception of God?"

That statement hit me hard.
It melted the icy intellectual mountain
in whose shadow I had lived and shivered many years.
I stood in the sunlight at last.

Reprinted from Alcoholics Anonymous, Page 12, with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.


Thought to Ponder....

Truth is to inner space what sunshine is to a garden.


Recovery Related Acronym

Coffee Pot

BIG BOOK = Believing In God Beats Our Old Knowledge.


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