“My friend promised when these things were done I would enter upon a new relationship with my Creator; that I would have the elements of a way of living which answered all my problems.” (Chapter One, Big Book)
“We have been talking about problems because we are problem people who have found a way up and out, and who wish to share our knowledge of that way with all who can use it.” (Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions)
Someone said they woke up thinking about all their problems. If I think I’ve got a problem, I’ve got a problem, and the problem is thinking that it’s me who has a problem. If I have a problem, it is really God who has a problem. It is not mine. It is God’s. My only problem is the belief I have a problem. I get rid of my problem by recognising that it is God who has the problem. Now that I recognise that God has the problem, I recognise that God also has the solution, and since God has the solution, God does not even have the problem. So there is no problem.