So Touchy

"At long last I saw, I felt, I believed. Scales of pride
and prejudice fell from my eyes." ~ Bill W

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Step we are on: Step Two

Chapter: "We Agnostics"

Subject: Belief, Willingness, Faith, Worship, Obstinacy, Prejudice

Good morning. Merry Christmas to all. 

• When recovered alcoholics presented spiritual approaches to our problem, what did we say? 

Three sentences

When people presented us with spiritual approaches, how frequently did we all say, "I wish I had what that man has. I'm sure it would work if I could only believe as he believes. But I cannot accept as surely true the many articles of faith which are so plain to him."

Comment: Is this one of the main things we should look for in a sponsor - the fortitude to stand steadfast in his faith based not on what anyone has told him, but what he understands is true, in his heart?

"Nothing more was required of me to make my beginning.
I saw that growth could start from that point."

What was it comforting to learn?

So it was comforting to learn that we could commence at a simpler level.

A commencement is a beginning. There are levels to spirituality; degrees of growth. We only have to get on the first rung of the ladder to begin  the journey.

• What were we unable to do?

Besides a seeming inability to accept much on faith,

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• What was our handicap?

we often found ourselves handicapped by obstinacy, sensitiveness, and unreasoning prejudice.

"Faith has to work twenty-four hours a
day in and through us, or we perish."

• How do many of us react to the mention of spiritual things?

Many of us have been so touchy that even casual reference to spiritual things made us bristle with antagonism.

• Is this sort of thinking OK?

This sort of thinking had to be abandoned.

Remember Fred the accountant when he said, "It meant I would have to throw several lifelong conceptions out of the window. That was not easy." (42:2)

• Even though some of us resisted the idea, what happened?

Though some of us resisted, we found no great difficulty in casting aside such feelings.

They had no great difficulty because they were ready to go to any length – even to God. When that is the case, when WILLINGNESS is present, it is not all that hard to set aside our preconceptions about spirituality and to let go of blinding baggage, even some religious and spiritual principles which might otherwise hinder accepting the non-religious, spiritual principles we are about to asked to accept through this book. 

Open-mindedness to these principles is necessarily.

Peace and  Love,

Danny S – RLRA

Real Live Recovered Alcoholic

http://recoveredalcoholic.blogspot.com