We should understand
well that all things are the work of the Great Spirit. He is above all things
and people.
Black
Elk Lakota
But
my friend sat before me, and he made the point-blank declaration that God had
done for him what he could not do for himself. His human will had failed.
Doctors had pronounced him incurable. Society was about to lock him up. Like
myself, he had admitted complete defeat. Then he had, in effect, been raised
from the dead, suddenly taken from the scrap heap to a level of life better
than the best he had ever known!
Had
this power originated in him? Obviously it had not. There had been no more
power in him than there was in me at that minute: and this was none at all.
Big
Book pg. 11
There
I humbly offered myself to God, as I understood Him, to do with me as He would.
I placed myself unreservedly under His care and direction. I admitted for the
first time that of myself I was nothing; that without Him I was lost.
Big
Book pg. 13
Simple,
but not easy; a price had to be paid. It meant destruction of
self-centeredness. I must turn in all things to the Father of Light who
presides over us all.
Big
Book pg. 14
Great
Spirit I am lost without you, for you made all things.