From my Character Defects Page:
I am doing my second step : I am trying to figure out What charaterists my higher power does not have? If you please give feed back ? Thanks
I don’t understand your question. My higher power doesn’t have any character defects – my higher power is ideal. I, as a human being, have all character defects to one degree or another. Talk to the people in your meetings, and more will be revealed.
That is NOT what she asked. She asked about what CHARACTERISTICS her HP lacks or owns—sounds to me like she needs some help on how to determine what a Higher Power means to her. Got any pointers there? I’d love to know what advice you have too!
Now I doubt Betty is still reading. The question was from over three years ago. Anonymous probably isn’t still reading either, and I am sorry it takes me so long to approve and then answer questions. Anyway . . .
Right after I read this question I went to a Big Book meeting and we read from page 53
When we became alcoholics . . . we had to fearlessly face the proposition that either God is everything or else He is nothing. God either is, or He isn’t. What was our choice to be?
Last night at my meeting, someone asked for the topic to be “fake it till you make it.” Many people shared on their experiences faking a faith in a higher power until they actually developed one. One common suggestion I’ve heard given to people who are having a hard time conceiving of God is to make a list of all the qualities you would want God to have, and let that serve as your description for now until your understanding grows and your description of God changes.
AA does not, to my knowledge, answer the age old human questions about God and why bad things happen to good people and good things happen to bad people. It doesn’t even answer the question about why some of us get to sit at AA meetings and wonder these things while other people suffer and die, never having heard of AA or unable to “get” it. Many people in AA find answers to their questions about God in a religion. It’s my personal opinion that the crucial part of all this is the belief in a higher power, be it human or divine.
I was blessed in my early belief that the people and the program of AA had a solution to my problem, if only I could grasp it. That was enough of a higher power to get me started. The description of the higher power is left wonderfully vague and in that way practically anyone can find it.
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