tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154617195762059961.post6505588075594735844..comments2023-03-16T04:57:17.922-04:00Comments on Improve Our Conscious Contact: What do you know about AA?joshuaelizetxehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01315687235907819372noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154617195762059961.post-36252196088818566202012-06-06T09:59:47.490-04:002012-06-06T09:59:47.490-04:00When I came into the rooms of A.A. a short while a...When I came into the rooms of A.A. a short while ago, I was taught that my Higher Power would be of my own understanding. I could let go of the angry God that had haunted most of my life, the angry god that I used to build up my own fears, shame, and self-hatred. This blog played an important part of that transformation in the first years of my recovery. <br /><br />For me, if I had been told that the only way I could have found sobriety was to embrace the Christian religion I would have run out of the door. Not getting into the reasons here,I want to say that Christianity was part of my angry God, the one who haunted me in my failures to stop drinking and porning. C.S. Lewis described Christianity as a closed universe, there was no getting away. Heaven or Hell. Made me feel trapped when I was involved. The best part of my days back then was the two or three hours of darkness I experienced as I passed out after drinking.<br /><br />There is little reference to Christianity in the literature of A.A. Through A.A. through the hope and experience of others, I was able to put myself in the hands of a loving God as I understand him or her to be. Kindness, compassion, patience, and loving. A Higher Power that uses the circumstances of my life to change me. Taking the most painful episodes to bring a measure of serenity. A faith that allows me to place my family in those same loving Hands, and let them go. I get to let go of the need to be in control of their lives.<br /><br />I would like to understand why it is so important to emphasis Christianity on this Step 11 blog? The emphasis might attract some, just as it frightens others. It certainly breaks from the preamble message: "A.A. is not allied with<br />any sect, denomination, politics, organization or institution; does<br />not wish to engage in any controversy, neither endorses nor<br />opposes any causes."Hankhttp://indisincted.blogspot.ca/noreply@blogger.com