One Day at a Time in Al-Anon:
Heard at an Al-Anon meeting: “I am willing to admit that the Al- Anon program, as a personal discipline, can do a lot for anyone who uses it. But I can’t believe that we need the help of what you call a Higher Power, or God.”
Even for those of us who believe only what we can see and touch, there is help in Al-Anon. Gradually, as we experience the miraculous results of using the Twelve Steps (even if only those which make no reference to the spiritual!) we are led to believe in a Power greater than ourselves. We receive, through spiritual enlightenment, the gift of faith. Finally we come to realize that the good changes in our lives could not have come about without God’s guidance.
Today’s Reminder:
If we admit the reality of our problems, and we can realistically appraise the experience of working them out, we have the most rational of reasons for believing in a Higher Power. We see, then, that we can use a Source of help which is beyond our human understanding.
“Why should we try to move mountains with our own strength alone when faith, ‘even as a grain of mustard seed’, can help us achieve what seemed impossible?”