My
schoolmate visited me, and I fully acquainted him with my problems and
deficiencies. We made a list of people I had hurt or toward whom I felt
resentment. I expressed my entire willingness to approach these individuals,
admitting my wrong. Never was I to be critical of them. I was to right all such
matters to the utmost of my ability.
I
was to test my thinking by the new God-consciousness within. Common sense would
thus become uncommon sense. I was to sit quietly when in doubt, asking only for
direction and strength to meet my problems as He would have me. Never was I to
pray for myself, except as my requests bore on my usefulness to others. Then
only might I expect to receive. But that would be in great measure.
My
friend promised when these things were done I would enter upon a new
relationship with my Creator; that I would have the elements of a way of living
which answered all my problems. Belief in the power of God, plus enough
willingness, honesty and humility to establish and maintain the new order of
things, were the essential requirements.
Big
Book pgs. 13 & 14
Creator
teach me the power of unity.