But they know what love
means and what truth means. They see the Spirit Father in everything.
Tocmetone
Paiute
The
very practical approach to his problems, the absence of intolerance of any
kind, the informality, the genuine democracy, the uncanny understanding which
these people had were irresistible. He and his wife would leave elated by the
thought of what they could now do for some stricken acquaintance and his
family. They knew they had a host of new friends; it seemed they had known
these strangers always. They had seen miracles, and one was to come to them.
They had visioned the Great Reality--their loving and All Powerful Creator.
Big
Book pgs. 160 & 161
Some
day we hope that every alcoholic who journeys will find a Fellowship of
Alcoholics Anonymous at his destination. To some extent this is already true.
Some of us are salesmen and go about. Little clusters of twos and threes and
fives of us have sprung up in other communities, through contact with our two
large centers. Those of us who travel drop in as often as we can. This practice
enables us to lend a hand, at the same time avoiding certain alluring
distractions of the road, about which any traveling man can inform you.
Big
Book pg. 162
Grandfather
teach me your truth, that I may see it in everything.