We do not worship the
Creator as the white people do, but we believe the forms of worship are
indifferent to the Creator. It is the homage of sincere hearts that please Him,
and we worship Him in that manner.
Red
Jacket Seneca
My
friend suggested what then seemed a novel idea. He said, "Why don't you choose your own
conception of God?"
That
statement hit me hard. It melted the icy intellectual mountain in whose shadow
I had lived and shivered many years. I stood in the sunlight at last.
It was only a matter of being willing to believe in a Power
greater than myself. Nothing more was required of me to make my beginning.
Big
Book pg. 12
Much
to our relief, we discovered we did not need to consider another's conception
of God... To us, the Realm of Spirit is broad, roomy, all inclusive; never
exclusive or forbidding to those who earnestly seek. It is open, we believe, to
all men.
Big
Book pg. 46
Great
Mystery help me remember that your mystery lives in my heart.