Page 28 of the book Alcoholics Anonymous:
'If what we have learned and felt and seen
means anything at all, it means that all of us, whatever
our race, creed, or color are the children of a living
Creator with whom we may form a relationship upon
simple and understandable terms as soon as we are
willing and honest enough to try.'
'If what we have learned and felt and seen
means anything at all, it means that all of us, whatever
our race, creed, or color are the children of a living
Creator with whom we may form a relationship upon
simple and understandable terms as soon as we are
willing and honest enough to try.'
- I did not create myself: I was created.
- If I was created, there is a Creator.
- As a child of God, I am made of the same substance.
- That means, since God is not a body, I am not a body.
- If I did not create myself and I am not a body, then my identity and worth do not flow from any 'personal characteristics' of mine.
- To the extent that I have qualities, these were bestowed on me, so I cannot take credit for them.
- My identity consists solely in being a spirit, a child of God.
- My body is merely a communication device; my life circumstances are merely a context.
- My worth is infinite because I exist.
- Any assertion that I am not of infinite worth (or that someone else is not of infinite worth) is predicated on three false assumptions: (a) people have different worths (which they do not) (b) the universe has given me the role of judging those worths (which it has not) (c) I have special knowledge, experience, skills, and experience enabling me to perform that judgement (which I do not).
- Low self-worth is therefore an error.
- Contempt for others is therefore an error.
- All others are my brothers and sisters, appearances notwithstanding.
- They are made of the same substance as me (spirit).
- A relationship with the Creator is possible.
- That relationship requires willingness and honesty.
- Honesty means a recognition of all of the above.
- Willingness manifests as a concerted effort to establish a relationship with the Creator by seeking the Creator's will at all times and in all things.
LESSON 275.
God's healing Voice protects all things today.
W-pII.275.1. Let us today attend the Voice for God, which speaks an ancient lesson, no more true today than any other day. 2 Yet has this day been chosen as the time when we will seek and hear and learn and understand. 3 Join me in hearing. 4 For the Voice for God tells us of things we cannot understand alone, nor learn apart. 5 It is in this that all things are protected. 6 And in this the healing of the Voice for God is found.
W-pII.275.2. Your healing Voice protects all things today, and so I leave all things to You. 2 I need be anxious over nothing. 3 For Your Voice will tell me what to do and where to go; to whom to speak and what to say to him, what thoughts to think, what words to give the world. 4 The safety that I bring is given me. 5 Father, Your Voice protects all things through me.