Man is a spirit, a
spark from the cosmic fire who needs to burn toward God. God burns toward
man and that union is the far off divine event. But there is no union
except in perfect freedom, never, except when the will and love in the free soul
are traveling to bring the whole man, body and soul, and the whole society, in
freedom to the mystical cosmic alter.
Las Casas
Instead
of regarding ourselves as intelligent agents, spearheads of God's ever
advancing Creation, we agnostics and atheists chose to believe that our human
intelligence was the last word, the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the
end of all. Rather vain of us, wasn't it?
Big
Book pg. 49
When
men and women pour so much alcohol into themselves that they destroy their
lives, they commit a most unnatural act. Defying their instinctive desire for
self-preservation, they seem bent upon self-destruction. They work against
their own deepest instinct.
As
they are progressively humbled by the terrific beating administered by
alcohol, the grace of God can enter them and expel their obsession. Here their
powerful instinct to live can cooperate fully with their Creator's desire to
give them new life.
The
central characteristic of the spiritual experience is that it gives the
recipient a new and better motivation out of all proportion to any process of
discipline, belief, or faith.
"As Bill Sees It" pg. 246
Creator
allow me to experience that total freedom.