Visualize a daisy..............

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Hi folks,

On an AA mailing list I am momentarily engaged in a

discussion about the problems atheists and agnostics

have in AA with the religious concepts of HP and the

steps. This often results in interesting reactions

from the steppers.

A list member joined in the discussion with the

following comment:

" And if you want to visualise a daisy, talk and pray

to it, and call that your Higher Power, you go right

ahead and do that if it works for you. All too often,

people new to AA and sobriety look for excuses and

reasons to run from the program and " the religion

thing " is often all too convenient an excuse.

-It's right there in Step Three:

Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to

the care of God, A GOD OF OUR OWN UNDERSTANDING. "

First I thought: " That guy must be joking, talk and

pray to a daisy?!? " Does he take me for an imbecile ?

But then I remembered one of the first AA meetings I

attended, there was an American woman who told me I

could choose a 'doorknob' as my Higher Power.

Daisies and doorknobs, what is next ?

Bart.

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