Victory is only achieved and victory is sustained by those hearts
in which the flame of nobility, honesty and the spirit of heroism burns
bright. May the Great Spirit be the flame in your
hearts. Hiawatha Iroquois Next day found the prospect more receptive. He had been thinking it
over. "Maybe you're right," he said, "God ought to be able to do
anything." Then he added, "He sure didn't do much for me when I was trying
to fight this booze racket alone." On
the third day the lawyer gave his life to the care and direction of his
Creator, and said he was perfectly willing to do anything necessary. His
wife came, scarcely daring to be hopeful, though she thought she saw
something different about her husband already. He had begun to have a
spiritual experience. That afternoon he put on his clothes and walked from the hospital a
free man. He entered a political campaign, making speeches, frequenting
men's gathering places of all sorts, often staying up all night. He lost
the race by only a narrow margin. But he had found God--and in finding God
had found himself. Big Book
pg. 158 Great Spirit may we feel the flame burn in our hearts.
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