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. |