"...Grandmother
the Earth. That power is here all the time. It is continuous, and nobody
controls it."
Wallace
Black Elk Lakota
"Came
to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity"
Big
Book pg. 59
The
prosaic steel girder is a mass of electrons whirling around each other at
incredible speed. These tiny bodies are governed by precise laws, and these
laws hold true throughout the material world. Science tells us so. We have no
reason to doubt it. When, however, the perfectly logical assumption is
suggested that underneath the material world and life as we see it, there
is an all Powerful, Guiding, Creative Intelligence, right there our perverse
streak comes to the surface and we laboriously set out to convince ourselves it
isn't so. We read wordy books and indulge in windy arguments, thinking we
believe this universe needs no God to explain it. Were our contentions true, it
would follow that life originated out of nothing, means nothing, and proceeds nowhere.
Big
Book pg. 49
Thank you, Grandfather,
Grandmother for the air we breathe and the earth we sit upon.