![]() When we let go and allow ourselves access to a Higher Power, we will discover the best way to proceed. In the long run, no amount of manipulation on our part will change a situation. Charging through life like the house is on fire exhausts us and gets us nowhere. There is no point in living a frantic existence. We can be sure that if we turn our problems over to our Higher Power, through listening to others share their experience or in the quiet of meditation, the answers will come. Anxiously plotting, struggling, planning, worrying - none of these suffice. A willingness to let go of our preconceived ideas and opinions opens the channel for spiritual guidance to light our way.Īt times, we must be driven to the point of distraction before we are ready to turn difficult situations over to our Higher Power. When we accept that we don't have all the answers, we open ourselves to new and different options. How do we begin the process of letting our Higher Power guide our lives? When we seek advice about situations that trouble us, we often find that our Higher Power works through others. I pray that I may have faith in His miracle-working power. I pray that I may feel sure that there is nothing that God cannot accomplish in changing my life. So we can trust in God and have boundless faith in His power to make us whole again, whenever He chooses. When a person trusts wholly in God and leaves to Him the choosing of the day and hour, there is God's miracle-working power becoming manifest in that persons life. It still works miracles of change in lives and miracles of healing in twisted minds. ![]() God's miracle-working power is as manifest today as it was in the past. I have learned to laugh at self-pity because it's so childish. When I am all wrapped up in A.A., I do not notice the personal slights so much. We have learned to take it on the chin if necessary and smile. One cause of our drinking was that we couldn't take it, so we escaped the unpleasant situation. What happens to me now is not so important. It didn't used to take much to insult me, to feel that I had been slighted or left on the outside. I am less sensitive and my feelings are less easily hurt. © Copyright 1990 by Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc. The more I choose to seek the beauty of God's work in other people, the more certain of His presence I will become. Today I can bring myself a little closer to my Higher Power. Every encounter with another is an opportunity for prayer, for acknowledging God's presence within me. Conscious contact with God can be as simple, and as profound, as conscious contact with another human being. Step Eleven doesn't have to overwhelm me. And when we turn away from meditation and prayer, we likewise deprive our minds, our emotions, and our intuitions of vitally needed support. When we refuse air, light, or food, the body suffers. Those of us who have come to make regular use of prayer would no more do without it than we would refuse air, food, or sunshine. Together WE Trudge The Road OF Happy Destiny
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