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WHO IS YOUR GOD?

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Permalink Reply by Barb I on January 4, 2010 at 4:57pm
Not me anymore! Thank God! It's a hard job and I'm not good at it!
Permalink Reply by Virgil on January 5, 2010 at 4:46am
Barb I said:
Not me anymore! Thank God! It's a hard job and I'm not good at it!

Thank you Barb, you are on the road to a new life filled with many joys.
Faith and trust in ourselves, always left us empty.
Yet there is one we can fully trust and have complete faith in.
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Permalink Reply by Robert H on January 20, 2010 at 11:52am
I don't even know what GOD is let alone who GOD is.......I'm just glad I got an understanding that GOD is and that is enouigh for me
Permalink Reply by Earl P. on April 25, 2010 at 6:03pm
The Big Book tells us that deep down in every man, woman, and child, is the fundamental idea of God. It may be obscured by calamity, by pomp, by worship of other things, but in some form or other it is there. God is as much a fact as we are.
I believe God doesn't care if I'm good or bad, I believe that God doesn't care if I'm drunk or sober, I just believe that god cares period.......................
Permalink Reply by don_v on September 27, 2010 at 9:11am
Not sure.
I do know that the last few years I really started to say this very often and regularly: I can't, He can, I think I'll let Him. Pretty simple, heard it a million times. Just never said it or put trust in Him. It is working for me and I feel better a lot of the time.
Permalink Reply by Misha P on October 19, 2010 at 7:11pm
I have a god that I follow in my program and he is awesome
Permalink Reply by Mipi on February 1, 2012 at 5:15am
Somehow I lost my GOD or maybe I just let him slip and things are so much more difficult without him/her.
Permalink Reply by Betty H. on February 13, 2012 at 10:27pm

Mipi, I came to AA a 5th generation Atheist. Most people find that hard to believe but it is very true. I had never been in a church, never read the bible, and didn't know a single prayer. Then I get to AA (I'll have 11 years this month) and I am told if I want to stay sober I have to get a Higher Power (code word for God). I knew I was doomed to die an Alcoholic death. However that is not what happened, I have 11 years of sobriety, a sponsor and sponsor other woman. AND if you asked me OUTSIDE of an AA meeting, I would still tell you I am definitely an Atheist. However INSIDE AA there is a POWER that helps and keeps sober. In the meetings of AA and with the help of a sponsor I have learned to LIVE the steps in my life, to meditate, and to pray... yes pray. I pray in the AA way, not the Christian way (I wouldn't know how to anyway) I pray like the book tells me to. I follow the directions. I have an incredible Spiritual Life that I would not trade for anything... but yet I still consider myself an Atheist. 

I tell my sponsee's when they feel like you do that God is Unconditional Love and as long as you are breathing you will always have it. Unconditional LOVE will never test you, and will never forsake you. Your heart is filled with love. AND WHEN I FEEL LIKE YOU DO my Sponsor Always said to me... Girl, you better get busy helping another alcoholic. Because nothing will get us closer to our HP then helping another alcoholic, because it gets us out of self (EGO)  and into service. 

Look in the Mirror and see your God... See the LOVE. Feel the love. If you are staying sober one day at a time your God is there... You WERE LOST, But NOW you ARE FOUND... 
Mipi said:

Somehow I lost my GOD or maybe I just let him slip and things are so much more difficult without him/her.
Permalink Reply by Mipi on February 14, 2012 at 2:54am


Betty H. said:

Mipi, I came to AA a 5th generation Atheist. Most people find that hard to believe but it is very true. I had never been in a church, never read the bible, and didn't know a single prayer. Then I get to AA (I'll have 11 years this month) and I am told if I want to stay sober I have to get a Higher Power (code word for God). I knew I was doomed to die an Alcoholic death. However that is not what happened, I have 11 years of sobriety, a sponsor and sponsor other woman. AND if you asked me OUTSIDE of an AA meeting, I would still tell you I am definitely an Atheist. However INSIDE AA there is a POWER that helps and keeps sober. In the meetings of AA and with the help of a sponsor I have learned to LIVE the steps in my life, to meditate, and to pray... yes pray. I pray in the AA way, not the Christian way (I wouldn't know how to anyway) I pray like the book tells me to. I follow the directions. I have an incredible Spiritual Life that I would not trade for anything... but yet I still consider myself an Atheist. 

I tell my sponsee's when they feel like you do that God is Unconditional Love and as long as you are breathing you will always have it. Unconditional LOVE will never test you, and will never forsake you. Your heart is filled with love. AND WHEN I FEEL LIKE YOU DO my Sponsor Always said to me... Girl, you better get busy helping another alcoholic. Because nothing will get us closer to our HP then helping another alcoholic, because it gets us out of self (EGO)  and into service. 

Look in the Mirror and see your God... See the LOVE. Feel the love. If you are staying sober one day at a time your God is there... You WERE LOST, But NOW you ARE FOUND... 
Mipi said:

Somehow I lost my GOD or maybe I just let him slip and things are so much more difficult without him/her.
Permalink Reply by Mipi on February 14, 2012 at 2:55am


Mipi said:


Betty H. said:

Mipi, I came to AA a 5th generation Atheist. Most people find that hard to believe but it is very true. I had never been in a church, never read the bible, and didn't know a single prayer. Then I get to AA (I'll have 11 years this month) and I am told if I want to stay sober I have to get a Higher Power (code word for God). I knew I was doomed to die an Alcoholic death. However that is not what happened, I have 11 years of sobriety, a sponsor and sponsor other woman. AND if you asked me OUTSIDE of an AA meeting, I would still tell you I am definitely an Atheist. However INSIDE AA there is a POWER that helps and keeps sober. In the meetings of AA and with the help of a sponsor I have learned to LIVE the steps in my life, to meditate, and to pray... yes pray. I pray in the AA way, not the Christian way (I wouldn't know how to anyway) I pray like the book tells me to. I follow the directions. I have an incredible Spiritual Life that I would not trade for anything... but yet I still consider myself an Atheist. 

I tell my sponsee's when they feel like you do that God is Unconditional Love and as long as you are breathing you will always have it. Unconditional LOVE will never test you, and will never forsake you. Your heart is filled with love. AND WHEN I FEEL LIKE YOU DO my Sponsor Always said to me... Girl, you better get busy helping another alcoholic. Because nothing will get us closer to our HP then helping another alcoholic, because it gets us out of self (EGO)  and into service. 

Look in the Mirror and see your God... See the LOVE. Feel the love. If you are staying sober one day at a time your God is there... You WERE LOST, But NOW you ARE FOUND... 
Mipi said:

Somehow I lost my GOD or maybe I just let him slip and things are so much more difficult without him/her.
Permalink Reply by Betty H. on February 17, 2012 at 9:21pm

I see that I missed your replies. I hope the my post didn't offend or cause more harm. It was not intended to. 

Mipi said:



Mipi said:


Betty H. said:

Mipi, I came to AA a 5th generation Atheist. Most people find that hard to believe but it is very true. I had never been in a church, never read the bible, and didn't know a single prayer. Then I get to AA (I'll have 11 years this month) and I am told if I want to stay sober I have to get a Higher Power (code word for God). I knew I was doomed to die an Alcoholic death. However that is not what happened, I have 11 years of sobriety, a sponsor and sponsor other woman. AND if you asked me OUTSIDE of an AA meeting, I would still tell you I am definitely an Atheist. However INSIDE AA there is a POWER that helps and keeps sober. In the meetings of AA and with the help of a sponsor I have learned to LIVE the steps in my life, to meditate, and to pray... yes pray. I pray in the AA way, not the Christian way (I wouldn't know how to anyway) I pray like the book tells me to. I follow the directions. I have an incredible Spiritual Life that I would not trade for anything... but yet I still consider myself an Atheist. 

I tell my sponsee's when they feel like you do that God is Unconditional Love and as long as you are breathing you will always have it. Unconditional LOVE will never test you, and will never forsake you. Your heart is filled with love. AND WHEN I FEEL LIKE YOU DO my Sponsor Always said to me... Girl, you better get busy helping another alcoholic. Because nothing will get us closer to our HP then helping another alcoholic, because it gets us out of self (EGO)  and into service. 

Look in the Mirror and see your God... See the LOVE. Feel the love. If you are staying sober one day at a time your God is there... You WERE LOST, But NOW you ARE FOUND... 
Mipi said:

Somehow I lost my GOD or maybe I just let him slip and things are so much more difficult without him/her.
Permalink Reply by Mipi on February 18, 2012 at 12:50am
Hi Betty,
Gosh, obviously my reply didn't go though. You did not cause any harm. Your response was what I needed to hear and I suppose it was what any sponsor would have said so I'm very grateful for that.
It's good to know God is there even if at times you don't feel his presence.
I went to a cafe recently and ordered some tea and while I sat there, suddenly and unexoectedly the feeling came over me that I was going to have to order a drink. I mean I've been sober for 8 years and haven't felt this for years. It was so scary. It was like it was stronger than me. So I just finished my tea and left the place. It took me a lot of strenght and I'm sure that somehow God or something must have been there to protect me from giving in to this craving.

Michèle

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