“an alcoholic who had known a spiritual experience” (Page 56, Big Book)
I recently heard someone use the phrase, “I’m working through the concept of a power greater than myself.” Now, on one level, I quite understand what is meant. One does indeed, as part of Step Two, consider what one believes God is.
But the danger is that one is missing the point.
Imagine being on a date, and the person opposite you is trying to talk to you, and you say something like, ‘Right now, I’m working through the concept of you’. They might be nonplussed; they’re trying to relate to you, and you’re trying to relate to your own concept of the person. That solipsism leaves the other person out of the equation altogether.
God wants to have a relationship with us. Perhaps we should be concerned to reciprocate in kind rather than get lost in our own concepts in the absence of any experience.
Once one is having the experience, the concept is neither here nor there.