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56
Step
we are on: Step Two
Chapter:
"We Agnostics"
Subject:
Depression, PTSD, Suicide, Financial Loss, Atheism
Good
morning. We are reading the Big Book co-authors tell of one of the most
forgotten entrants into the Big Book presentation of the solution. The "Ministers
Son" sometimes seems shunned - perhaps for reason we
will learn later on this week which you may find surprising. For now let’s just read
on.
- Who came to visit him?
One night, when confined in a hospital, he was approached by an alcoholic who had known a spiritual experience.
- How did the visit affect him?
Our friend's gorge rose as he bitterly cried out: "If there is a God, He certainly hasn't done anything for me!"
- But later, what did he ask?
But later, alone in his room, he asked himself this question: "Is it possible that all the religious people I have known are wrong?"
- How did he feel when he began to think maybe he had been wrong? Three sentences
While pondering the answer he felt as though he lived in hell. Then, like a thunderbolt, a great thought came. It crowded out all else:
- What thought overwhelmed him?
"Who are you to say there is no God?"
No voices. No automatic writing. No sermons,
Ouija boards or crystal balls - just one humbling idea in answer to a humble question.
Peace and Love,
Danny S – RLRA
Real Live Recovered Alcoholic
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