"When that spirit comes, we don't ever ask questions. If I don't
understand, I just hold onto it. Then later down the road, maybe in a couple of
years, I understand what that spirit meant."
Wallace
Black Elk Lakota
How
often do we sit in A.A. meetings and hear the speaker declare, "But I
haven't got the spiritual angle." Prior to this statement, he has
described a miracle of transformation which has occurred in him - not only his
release from alcohol, but a complete change in his whole attitude toward life
and the living of it.
Bill W
AA
Grapevine July 1962
He
finally realizes that he has undergone a profound alteration in his reaction to
life; that such a change could hardly have been brought on by himself alone.
What often takes place in a few months could seldom have been accomplished by
years of self-discipline. With few exceptions our members find they have tapped
an unsuspected inner resource which they presently identify with their own
conception of a Power greater than themselves.
Big
Book pgs. 567 & 568
Grandfather,
Grandmother help us to understand Spirit.